Word: ampico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio got him first. In 1921 he went to WJZ, then merely a sort of cloister off a ladies' rest room of the Westinghouse factory in Newark. For $40 a week he sang, played the piano, operated the Ampico player-piano, announced, told bedtime stories, recited Uncle Wiggly, read the Sunday funnies. Since those days, many an NBC announcer has come & gone, but Milton Cross is still on the job, an NBC standby...
Hart has never studied versification, never uses a rhyming dictionary. Rodgers disparages himself as a pianist, though he is extremely pleased at having once made some Ampico player-piano rolls of some of his song hits. Ampico still contributes something to his income. From time to time it sends him long, involved, incomprehensible royalty statements, with royalty enclosed. The enclosure: a ten-cent postage stamp...
...within a year the creditors were paid and plans for a reorganization perfected. A new company, American Piano Corp.. bought the assets of the old company, entered the manufacture of such famed instruments as the Knabe (Metropolitan Opera's favorite). Chickering (family use). Mason & Hamlin (artists) and the Ampico Player Piano...