The Milestone Group company gained further licences to broadcast in Southampton, Fawley, Reading and Portsmouth in 2003 after the re-advertising of the four-year contracts and successfully renewed its contract to broadcast to Oxford.

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

The CRTC finally granted a license to Milestone in 2000, after a cabinet order-in-council directed the commission to license two new radio stations that reflected the cultural diversity of the Toronto market, and CFXJ-FM launched in 2001.

The Milestone Group used to own five local radio stations in the UK.

In July 2000, the cable stations received an International Milestone Heritage Site Award from the IEEE ( Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Inc USA ) for their significance in the history of electrical science.

The station's licensing by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had been controversial, because the CRTC had passed over an application by Milestone Radio for an urban music station, which would have been a new format in the Toronto market, in favour of Rawlco's application to serve a niche which was already served by existing stations.

The staff at Variety magazine also reviewed the film favorably, writing, " Under skillful directorial guidance of Lewis Milestone, the picture retains all of the forceful and poignant drama of John Steinbeck's original play and novel, in presenting the strange palship and eventual tragedy of the two California ranch itinerants.

Despite this requirement for the Hays whitewash squad, Solow and Milestone retain all of the virility of the piece in its original form.

If all objectives are met, the Product Release Milestone is reached and the development cycle is finished.

The Golden Milestone inspired the Zero Milestone in Washington, D. C., intended as the point from which all road distances in the United States should be reckoned.

The 1963-1965 Riviera met with approval from all quarters, and has since earned Milestone status from the Milestone Car Society.

* Despite being used regularly in the DC Comics universe, the term metahuman was not commonly used at the time Milestone Comics ' first 4 books ( Static being the fourth ) were published ( if at all ).

It was owned by the Milestone Group who closed all operations by April 2009.

Milestone complied with this request by shooting a scene where the bazooka crew reported that they used up all their shells in a battle with enemy tanks.

" It also saw a mass exodus of air staffers ( including the Program Director and sales staff, as well as all specialty programs and mix shows being cancelled ) as CTVglobemedia ( now Bell Media Radio ) took over the ownership of the station from Milestone.

Under an arrangement similar to the one DC and Wildstorm established later, all Milestone characters existed in a separate continuity that did not fall under DC Comics ' direct editorial control ( but DC still retained right of refusal to publish ).

Throughout the negotiations, Milestone, and their lawyers, insisted on three basic points: ( 1 ) that they would retain total creative control ; ( 2 ) that they would retain all copyrights for characters under the Milestone banner ; and ( 3 ) that they would have the final say on all merchandising and licensing deals pertaining to their properties.

The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D. C. intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be reckoned when it was built.

# In 1923, the Zero Milestone was set on the north side of the Ellipse, intended to be on the same meridian and to be the zero mileage point for all United States roads ( but never was ).

Following the success of Image Comics ( a studio of comics ' top artists each publishing their own book contained in its own mini-universe ) and Valiant Comics ( a cohesive universe shared by all the Valiant characters ; the model the Ultraverse line aimed to imitate ), a number of new universes were launched including Milestone from DC and Comics Greatest World from Dark Horse.

Howard Hawks was not the first choice ; Roy Del Ruth and Lewis Milestone had been set to direct before Hawks got the job.

Smith had a career revival in the 1980s and 1990s, again recording for Blue Note and Verve, and for Milestone and Elektra.

Original director Lewis Milestone, who had previously filmed All Quiet on the Western Front, A Walk in the Sun and Pork Chop Hill, left the production, either because Milestone thought that the script was inadequate, or because the studio was unhappy with cost overruns during Milestone's tenure.

The Milestone Group had one television channel:

Due to problems with creditors, Bronston had to shut down production and the project was taken over by Superior Productions, which included the director Lewis Milestone Bronston filed a lawsuit, and in an out-of-court settlement received 21. 25 % of the film's profits.

Milestone authorized the shooting of such a scene but whether it was filmed but later edited out of the release no one is sure ; however, a brief scene in the landing craft has the platoon sergeant explaining to the men, and the audience, that they had been briefed on their mission.

Shortly after the festival, three film professionals who had screened I Am Cuba at the San Francisco screening contacted friends at Milestone Films in New York.

In essence, DC had in effect licensed the characters, editorial services, and creative content of the Milestone books for an annual fee and a share of the profits.

The biggest conflict they had was when an issue of Static showed the hero kissing his girlfriend, which DC didn't want to publish on grounds that it was using sex to sell comics ( which many DC covers at the time did ); Milestone covered most of the image as a compromise, and McDuffie believed it made DC uncomfortable because it was specifically " black sexuality ".

Milestone had several advantages in its publishing efforts: Their books were distributed and marketed by one of the " Big Two " comic book publishers, the comics industry had experienced remarkable increases in sales in preceding years, they featured the work of several well-known and critically acclaimed creators, they used a coloring process that gave their books a distinctive look, and they had the potential to appeal to an audience that was not being targeted by other publishers.

They also suffered from several disadvantages: The comics market was experiencing a glut of " new universes " as several other publishers launched superhero lines around the same time ( a slump would start in 1993 and a market crash in 1994 ,) a significant number of retailers and readers perceived the Milestone books to be " comics for blacks " and assumed they would not interest non-African-American readers, the books received limited exposure beyond existing comics-shop customers, the coloring process added slightly to the cover price of their books, and overall comics sales had peaked around the time of Milestone's launch and declined dramatically in the years that followed.

Milestone provided the opportunity for many emerging talents who had been passed over by larger established companies, beginning the careers of many comic industry professionals.

In 1990, Milestone Radio applied to the CRTC for an urban music station in Toronto, which would have been the first such station in Canada, but that application was denied in favour of a country music station — which Toronto already had on its radio dial.

In a controversial decision, the CBC was awarded the 99. 1 frequency over Milestone Radio, who had applied to open an urban music station, which would have been the first station operating under that format in Canada, to serve the city's large black community.

He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part.

Eight people died instantly of accidental causes and six others were injured and trapped when the floor of a 100-year-old tavern, called Milestone, collapsed into the basement, where they had taken shelter.

All of the town ’ s residents had made it to storm shelters by the time the tornado hit ; however, no one could predict that the Milestone would collapse due to the force of the tornado.

Static's civilian identity was named after an African-American who was denied entrance to the University of Florida's law school in 1949. Milestone ceased publishing comics in 1997 but Static was saved from obscurity by the WB animated series Static Shock, which aired for four seasons and led to the 2001 comic book miniseries Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool ; The 2009 trade paperback of this series was nominated for a Glyph Comics Award for Best Reprint Collection.

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

The motel concept originated with the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel, which was constructed in 1925 by Arthur Heineman ( although some earlier motels that dated to 1915 have been discovered ).

The Racket ( 1928 ) is an American crime film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone.

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The film, produced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by Lewis Milestone.

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Milestone won his second Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, a harrowing screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Having previously only existed on worn 16mm prints, the film was restored and enlarged to 35mm by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Milestone Films, thanks in part to a donation from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

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He contrived approach drives and lodges to enhance impressions of size and importance, and even introduced monogramed milestones on the roads around some estates, for which he was satirised by Thomas Love Peacock as ' Marmaduke Milestone, esquire, a Picturesque Landscape Gardener ' in Headlong Hall.

* 1932-as Rain, starring Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Guy Kibbee and Beulah Bondi ; adapted by Maxwell Anderson, directed by Lewis Milestone.

The film, released on 14 August 1952, was directed by All Quiet on the Western Front's Lewis Milestone, and Rennie's performance was respectfully, but not enthusiastically, received by the critics.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.