Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano Co. product. None would therefore deny (although they might prefer others; that American Piano Co. pianos are good pianos...
...proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their sales list in the twelve American retail stores, in the hope that dwindling...
...Trust Co. has announced that the company will continue to operate so that the Metropolitan will still be Knabe equipped, the Chickering will go to many a home and artists will continue to use Mason & Hamlin. And stockholders were somewhat cheered by the assurance in the receivership petition that although the company at present was "unable to meet its matured debts by reason of lack of working capital and is unable to establish adequate means to borrow money." American Piano is "still solvent...
Last week the preferred stock, now dividendless, sold as low as 21 while the common, now Durantless, went to 4. Although both stocks had already suffered during the break, last week's decline had its own reason-"friendly" receivers were appointed as the result of a petition by Bethlehem Steel Corp., said to be a $400,000 creditor. In this receivership there was not evident the aftermath of the market's break, as had been true in the Fox trusteeship (TIME, Dec. 16), nor of poor trade conditions as in the American Piano receivership (see p. 30). There...
Proud Petkiewicz is as yet inexperienced. Although insisting that he came merely to see how U. S. universities taught law, he brought his track clothes with him and immediately presented himself for recognition...