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
Adolph Zukor founded Paramount Pictures and lived to 103.
From Time • Jan. 9, 2014
Set in a near-future New York City, the novel follows the strange career of math-obsessed futurist Mitchell Zukor, who lives through one of the disaster scenarios he's paid to predict for Fortune 500 companies.
From Slate • May 3, 2013
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
With movies it was Adolph Zukor, who created the Hollywood studio system.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2011
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