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* 1943: Jock Whitney sold to Film Classics, Inc. the rights to A Star Is Born and Nothing Sacred ( both of which were actually owned by Pioneer Pictures ), and the Selznick International productions Little Lord Fauntleroy, Made for Each Other, and The Young in Heart.
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The arrival of the F6Fs with their powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engines in late 1943 combined with the deployment of the new Essex class carriers and the Independence class carriers immediately gave the U. S. Pacific Fleet air supremacy wherever the Fast Carrier Force operated.
During this period, he had three solo exhibitions ( 1940, 1941, and 1943 ) at the Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and solo exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chicago ( 1941 ), and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( 1942 ), while private collections and museums such as the Barnes Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, purchased his works.
In 1943, she established and endowed the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation ( named in honor of her mother ) for medical research.
1943 and sold
In 1943, he founded the University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of " Knowledgian ," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death.
Four were in the far east when Germany surrendered and were commandeered by Japan ( U-181 was rechristened I-501, U-195-I-506, U-219-I-505, U-862-I-502, and a fifth boat, U-511, had been sold to Japan in 1943 and renamed RO-500 ).
The Chicago station got a commercial license as WBKB in 1943, but was sold to UPT along with Balaban & Katz in 1948, resold to CBS, and eventually became WBBM-TV.
On 12 October 1943, the " NBC Blue " radio network was sold to candy magnate Edward J. Noble for $ 8, 000, 000, and renamed " The Blue Network, Inc ".
The game made its way to England and was sold as Snakes and Ladders, then the basic concept was introduced in the United States as Chutes and Ladders ( an " improved new version of England's famous indoor sport ") by game pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.
Published early in the new year of 1943, the pamphlet sold a quarter of a million copies within three months and was quoted in the Canadian Parliament in 1943, and in The Adelaide Advertiser on Saturday 15 May 1943.
Similarly, in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Howard Roark is chosen to design a resort called Monodnack Valley and it is subsequently revealed that the investors had sold 200 % of the shares, convinced that the project would be a flop and that they had chosen Howard Roark as the worst possible person for the job.
In 1943 Williams sold his extensive back-catalogue of tunes to Decca Records for $ 50, 000 and retired, but then bought a bargain used-goods store.
She was a tanker laid down September 15, 1943, launched October 15, 1943, sold by the government in 1947, and scrapped in 1969.
* Peter Kellogg ( born 1943 ), tied for number 278 on Forbes Magazine's 2006 Billionaires List, with a net worth of $ 2. 6 billion ; director of the Wall Street investment firm Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, which was sold to Goldman Sachs in 2000 for $ 5. 5 billion.
At the close of 1943 the holding company of El Paso Electric sold its subsidiary the El Paso Electric Railway Company and its Mexican counterpart to one of National City Lines ' subsidiaries.
In August 1943, NBC was ordered to divest itself of the Blue Network and its stations ; WENR and Blue were sold to Edward J. Noble.
She toured the US from January 1942 to September 1943 ( appearing before 250, 000 troops on the Pacific Coast leg of her tour alone ) and it is said that she sold more war bonds than any other star.
By 1943 Girl Scouts also collected fat in cans with Girl Scout labels to aid the war effort and sold War Bonds at no profit.
The Spanish copies of the C96 were generally intended for export to China, but after the commencement of the Sino-Japanese war ( which blocked supply of guns to Chinese forces ) the remaining Astra 900s were used in the Spanish Civil War, and numbers were also sold to Germany in the period 1940 – 1943.
* Yamato Maru, originally the Italian ship Giuseppe Verdi that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis Island ; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines.
Alfredo Di Lelio, who sold said restaurant in 1943, opened again in 1950 at Piazza Augusto Imperatore his restaurant " Il Vero Alfredo ", that is still managed by the nephews Alfredo and Ines Di Lelio, continuing the tradition of the original fettuccine created by their grandfather.
1943 and Film
In 1943, he also directed two Allied propaganda films for the National Film Board of Canada, including Action Stations, about the Royal Canadian Navy's escorting of convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic.
The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mètres de fond ( 18 meters deep ), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands ( Var ) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche ( engineer of Arts and Métiers and the Naval College ).
Film historian Jeanine Basinger argues that a sub-genre, the World War II combat film, emerged in 1943.
She received the Donaldson Award and the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 1943 for One Touch of Venus.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and in 2001 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".
In Which We Serve also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film ( beating Casablanca ) and the Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1943.
* Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film by Tony Pipolo ( Oxford University Press ; 407 pages ; 2010 ) pays particular attention to psychosexual aspects of the French filmmaker's 13 features, from Les Anges du peche ( 1943 ) to L ' Argent ( 1983 ).
In 1943, Zack Schwartz, David Hilberman, and Stephen Bosustow formed a studio called first Industrial Film & Poster Service and later United Productions of America, where they were free to apply their concepts.
He also narrated documentary films, such as the National Film Board of Canada's Fighting Norway ( 1943 ).
In 1943, they moved to Canada and produced their second pinscreen film, In Passing ( En passant ), with funding from the National Film Board of Canada.
For her performance in The Hard Way ( 1943 ), she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
Die Weiße Rose ( The White Rose ) is a 1982 CCC Film production about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of University students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad.
Coslow became a film producer in the 1940s and won the Academy Award for Best Short Film for his production Heavenly Music in 1943.
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