Sentences with phrase «production of dime»

The Western: An Epic in Art and Film will open with expansive landscape paintings of the West, along with the mass production of dime novels and illustrated magazines.

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More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

Nigeria's economy, despite its substantial oil production (it is the fourth - leading supplier of oil to the U.S.), declined precipitously in the 1980s: at the beginning of that decade a naira was worth more than a dollar, while today's going rate values the naira at less than a dime.

Del Toro takes his monsters so seriously that he began work on The Shape of Water's creature design some three years before production started, paying with his own dime.

Which is not uncommon for Hollywood films of the era, which often turned on a dime to placate the production code.

With 18 books published via traditional NY publishers, she learned to her dismay, that two disappeared — owing her thousands of dollars; that books were orphaned three different times with editors who were fired or quit in the middle of production and no one was there to support her dream — meaning the book was dead; that a publisher actually sold rights to a book after all rights had reverted to her — never giving her a dime.

The creator of Wing Commander, who recently returned to game development after spending some time in film production, was in talks to bring his acclaimed series back on EA's dime.

If he chooses not to sell, he's going to have to have deep pockets as it may be two to four months before he sees a dime out of the agents» production.