The Rank Organisation Davis cut staff, reduced budgets and concentrated film production at Pinewood. Other studio facilities (in Islington) were closed, sold (Lime Grove Studios) or leased (Denham). The Rank Organisation closed Independent Producers Ltd. The policies of Davis alienated many in the industry, in particular they led film director David Lean, responsible for some of Rank's most critically and financially successful films, to look elsewhere for backing. In 1949, the company bought the Bush Radio manufacturing facility and began to diversify its interests. In the early 1960s Rank took over Murphy Radio to form the Rank Bush Murphy Group (which was eventually
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