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A MESSAGE PROM THE FRIENDLY COMPANY TO M-G-M's THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS WHO ARE NOT IN COMPETITIVE SITUATIONS ★ Compliance with the June nth opinion of the Federal Court in the government suit will require changes in the conduct of our affairs. Pending the entry of a final de- cree, we find it advisable and in some cases necessary to modify some of the policies under which we have been operating. Loew*s Inc. will, to the best of its ability, make just as few changes in its sales policy as is necessary. Above all, we will approach the future in that same friendly spirit which has earned for us your magnificent support, consideration, and loyalty. So many of our customers have expressed the desire for product security that we are very happy to announce the following plan in strictly noncompetitive situations. We will offer, subject to as few conditions as possible but including a privilege of elimination, all units of our regularly released output for the twelve month period commencing September i, 1946 and ending August 31, 1947. Should any of our customers in these non-com- petitive situations prefer to buy our pictures one at a time, they wiR of course, be accorded this privilege. We regret that we are not yet prepared in competitive situations to put into effect a general policy of competi- tive bidding due to the uncertainties inherent in the present status and the need for working out adminis- trative details. However, pending entry of a final decree, in a very limited number of emergency situations and on a purely experimental basis we will attempt to work out an administrative procedure for the handling of competitive bids. We hope that those of our customers, or prospective customers, to whom this procedure can- not be applied will understand our position and bear with us with patience. Our policy, until final disposition is made of the gov- ernment suit, will among other things, include the fol- lowing points; 1. Our pictures will be tradeshown. 2. In competitive situations or localities, each feature picture will be offered individually and its acqui- sition by license by any theatre will not be made conditional upon the licensing of any other pic- ture or unit distributed by us. 3. In strictly non-competitive situations we will offer, subject to certain conditions including the privi-