J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
Mann (military rank) most Nazi Party organizations, the rank of "Mann" held no distinctive insignia. Some groups, however, granted a minor form of rank insignia such as a blank collar patch or simple shoulder board to denote the rank of "Mann". (see right: SS rank insignia pattern from 1933) Even lower ranks, e.g. "Bewerber, Jungmann, Anwärter, Vollanwärter", were established in the mid-1930s as a recruit or candidate position, held by an individual seeking an appointment as a "Mann" in a Nazi Party paramilitary organization. Mann (military rank) Mann (German for "man" or "male"), was a paramilitary rank used by several Nazi Party paramilitary