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Joseph William Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it. [1]
During the evening of 17 January 1950, the gang make off with over 1.2 million dollars in cash, along with another 1.5 million in securities and checks. Brink's, a company that prides itself in the safekeeping of money, is nationally embarrassed by what the press is calling "the crime of the century."
This list charts films the 50 biggest worldwide openings. Since many films do not open on Fridays in many markets, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the movie's release. Figures prior to the year 2002 are not available.
The film grossed $4.5 million for the year. [39] In 1969, it was rereleased, earning $1.2 million in theatrical rentals. [46] It eventually grossed $14.5 million in the United States and Canada, [47] totaling more than $19.9 million grossed worldwide.
Kentucky's Ashland Oil and Refining Company founder and CEO, Paul G. Blazer (1890–1966), served twice as a government salaried dollar-a-year man: from 1933 to 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration on the Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry [12] as Chairman of the Blazer Committee [13] and a second time during World War II as Chairman of ...
The first film that is confirmed to have had a $1 million budget is Foolish Wives (1922), with the studio advertising it as "The First Real Million Dollar Picture". [112] The most expensive film of the silent era was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), [139] costing about $4 million—twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM ...
Ace Connors (John Hodiak) is a con man who has half a million dollars in bonds hidden in a cookbook. When he tries to sell a bogus oil investment to Dwight Chadwick ( Lloyd Corrigan ) at a Beverly Hills hotel, Dwight's attractive friend, Ricki Woodner ( Lucille Ball ), intervenes with a scam of her own.
In 1913, the top tax rate was 7% on incomes above $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4 million [97] in 2023 dollars) and a total of $28.3 million was collected. [98] During World War I, the top rate rose to 77% and the income threshold to be in this top bracket increased to $1,000,000 (equivalent to $23.8 million [97] in 2023 dollars).