Zukor
Americannoun
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The last pandemic, the Spanish flu of 1918, helped spur the creation of the Hollywood studio system under moguls such as Paramount Pictures co-founder Adolph Zukor, who took the opportunity to buy up failing theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
They found a home at Paramount’s “Big House,” a grand movie studio built by Adolph Zukor during the silent film heyday in Astoria, Queens.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2020
Adolph Zukor founded Paramount Pictures and lived to 103.
From Time ● Jan. 9, 2014
In the 20th century, those entrepreneurs were men such as Theodore Vail, Adolph Zukor and David Sarnoff.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
Below, just outside the grand entrance of the building where Adolph Zukor and Cecil B. DeMille once did business, Sumner M. Redstone’s retinue sips Champagne in the hot afternoon sun.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012
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