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...began, would be guaranteed a wartime profit of ?40,000,000 ($160,000,000) a year. Since the guaranteed profit was based on the revenues for 1935, 1936 and 1937, excluding the depression year of 1938, the terms seemed more than generous. In addition, the companies will split profits above ?40,000,000 up to ?43,500,000, after which the Government will take half until ?68,500,000 has been reached; after that, all. Since the agreement allows the companies to increase rates as prices and labor costs rise, financial writers figured that the stockholders would get more dividends...
...house records almost everywhere. Produced for $3,850,000, it was expected to gross up to $20,000,000 in a year and a half (with foreign distribution). That would make a handsome profit for Distributor (and part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International), who split a reputed 70% of the box-office gross. And since the book on which it was based was the fastest selling U. S. novel, it would also copper-rivet GWTW as the all-time hard-cash classic...
Most notably, he has seen the break-up of his parents' stale marriage, complete with quarrels, cruelties, grandmotherly interference, his own tortured and split allegiance. He has seen his mother walk out with a hollow, sad character named Charlie Cobden. He and his father have left their dead apartment to live with Uncle Henry and a menagerie of individualistic cousins, and there Gabe has had his first taste of vigorous family living. He has seen his father, who had been a kindly, negligible ghost, take on resonance and certainty. He has seen his hard mother break down and abjectly...
...preparation for the all-important Intercollegiate Ski Union meet on February 17 and 18, the ski team will split into two groups for rigorous training this weekend...
...bequest was split three ways, for college scholarships in public school graduates, for hospitals, and for the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a minister...