The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

In conceiving of a name for his hotel, Heineman abbreviated motor hotel to mo-tel after he could not fit the words " Milestone Motor Hotel " on his rooftop.

Milestone was known for his previous anti-war films, including 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front and Shangganling ( The Battle of Sangkumryung Ridge or Triangle Hill ; 1956 ), which was the most influential film on the Chinese in that era.

In his film score for " Of Mice and Men " ( 1939 ) and consequently in his collection " Music for the Movies " ( 1942 ), American composer Aaron Copland titled a section of the score " Threshing Machines ," to suit a scene in the Lewis Milestone film where Curley is threatening Slim over giving May a puppy, when many of the itinerant worker men are standing around or working on threshers.

The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone ( 1927 / 28 ) and Frank Lloyd ( 1928 / 29 ).

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

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.

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.

The XM2 / 3 passed the Army Systems Acquisition Review Council Milestone II review in 1979 and final approval for production came from the Secretary of Defense on 1 February 1980.

He also worked as an assistant director and second unit man for such directors as Allan Dwan and Lewis Milestone.

The Milestone was the main club for a good period of time, until a boycott began against the club, and its owner.

Student activities include Dance Marathon and Relay for Life, an FM radio station ( WTHS-FM 89. 9 ), newspaper ( The Anchor ), literary magazine ( Opus ), and yearbook ( Milestone ), plus a variety of clubs, musical and choral groups, spiritual, literary, social and athletic groups.

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

He released these first four albums on either the Milestone or Prestige labels, and then switched to ECM for his next endeavors ; ECM gave him a “ fertile platform ” for his “ atmospheric drumming and challenging compositions .”

The island is sometimes known as " Paddy's Milestone ", being approximately the halfway point of the sea journey from Belfast to Glasgow, a traditional route of emigration for many Irish labourers coming to Scotland to seek work.

In 2005 he became Under Secretary of the Air Force, thus serving as Department of Defense Executive Agent and Milestone Decision Authority for Space.

Like Wolfman's run, this era was prominent for its team-ups between DC heroes and the characters of Milestone Media.

Quello earned numerous accolades during his career, including a Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Broadcasters ( 1994 ) and the first Milestone Award from the Institute for Communications Law Studies at the Catholic University of America.

The company also retains its minority shares in the Haliburton, Milestone and Martz radio groups, although both Haliburton and Martz have sold off many of their assets in 2008 as well.

Milestone has also reissued many historic jazz recording sessions, including the Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and New Orleans Rhythm Kings sides originally made in the 1920s for Gennett Records.

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 ".

The Big Bang is a significant event in the fictional history of Milestone Comics, in which many of the superheroes and supervillains of Dakota-including Static and the Blood Syndicate-got their powers.

The name " Adam Evans " is derived from the names of former Milestone writers Adam Blaustein and Yves Fezzani, who created the character.

In 2002 on the 75th anniversary of the plant, its historic status was recognised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers, who marked the facility as an Engineering Milestone of the 20th century.

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.

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

The station, then owned by the Milestone Group, enjoyed considerable success, and was lauded at one point as the UK's most successful local commercial radio station in terms of audience reach-once at 44 % ( RAJAR Q2 2005 )-attributed to an emphasis on local presence, and presenters who were recruited on the basis of quality.

He enjoyed working with director Milestone and fellow cast members Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan and Jane Withers, and during filming he met composer Aaron Copland, who remained a friend in later years.

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.

When initially creating the first five characters for Milestone Comics, it was decided that Static would be created as a teenage hero who was a contemporary version of Spider-Man.

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.

The first two non-founder employees of Milestone were Matt Wayne, a script and comic writer who became editor, then managing editor ; and Christine Gilliam, the office manager – cum head of corporate communications.

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.

In 2000, the CRTC awarded one of the new frequencies to Milestone, who launched CFXJ in 2001, and the other to Aboriginal Voices, who launched CFIE in 2002.

The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin, who was not credited, and was directed by Lewis Milestone.

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

Milestone concluded that the lack of digital licences rendered the stations non-viable and all channels had ceased broadcasting by April 2009, including the original Oxford channel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.