Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Monthly, rival literary publication. The Advocate through Nelson R. Gidding '41, secretary, denied that the Board had any intentions of sabotaging the Monthly by taking over the bulk of its membership, while at the same time Pierre Amyiot '41, speaking for the Monthly, denied any rumors of a split in the ranks...
Amyiot felt that there was not any split on the Monthly, but rather that the five editors left what they had mistaken for "a sinking ship." These who went over to the Advocate were: William Abrahams, John Felker, Harry Feltenstein, Sloan Wilson, and Cornelius Ayer Wood...
...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...