Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greetings, Music Lovers-and that includes you, too, Toots. Once again you are tuned in on a concert by the no doubt world-renowned Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street-whose members have consecrated their lives to the preservation of the music of the Three Bs-Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie and the Blues. Present with us on this solemn occasion: Mademoiselle Dinah Diva Shore, who starts fires by rubbing two notes together; Maestro Paul Laval and his ten termite-proof wood winds; Dr. Gino Hamilton, as our chairman and intermission commentator; and Dr. Henry Levine, with his Dixieland Little Symphony...
...Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street-named after a famed street in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz-is devoted to two kinds of music, traditional "Dixieland" and modern hot. Trumpeter Henry Levine, who succeeded Nick La Rocca in the fabulous Original Dixieland Jazz Band of two decades ago, handles the New Orleans tunes, with his mostly brass octet. Paul Laval, an Italo-Frenchman (born Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included...
...industrial products. Rail lines from the interior had been crippled by repeated air bombing. Most Southampton warehouses were destroyed or damaged. The King George V graving dock, only one in England big enough to accommodate giantesses like the Queen Mary, was out of commission with smashed floodgates. The Empress basin was blocked by a sunken tanker, its wharves torn by gaping holes. Leaving port the master of the Magalhaes counted 23 wrecks in the Solent. "South England is dying," he concluded, "no miracle can stem the tide...
...Chairman Vinson of the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Twenty-one guns roared their salute when the Potomac docked at the vast Ports mouth Navy Yard-where the payroll has been upped from 7,600 to 12,000 men, where the aircraft carrier Ranger is being overhauled in the basin. The temperature soared up to 100° as he drove 15 miles to the naval operating base, stayed up through a sweltering afternoon as he inspected Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort (where 3-inch anti-aircraft guns ripped the tail from a sleeve target being towed...
...bill was a report. An investigation of WPA, said the report, had shown abuses, waste of funds, politics in the administering of relief. WPA funds had been used to exterminate rats in New Orleans at $2.97 a rat, to build golf courses for the wealthy, to improve a yacht basin for a yacht club, to construct a ski jump in New Hampshire, to pay the expenses of Deputy WPA Administrator Howard 0. Hunter to Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government officials and local politicians. At Del Mar, Calif., $521,047 of WPA funds was used...