Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grooves on a record (from approximately 100 to 300 to the inch) and by cutting turntable speed more than half (from 78 to 33 ⅓-r.p.m.), Columbia had produced a record that would play 45 minutes, include an entire symphony or concerto on one record. Columbia had a first batch of 101 Vinylite records ready (at $4.85 for a 12-inch classical and $2.85 for a 10-inch popular record with six to eight pieces...
...Paris, Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau was top man at one of the richest autograph auctions in Paris history. A Rousseau manuscript fetched 4,230,000 francs. A batch of letters from Voltaire brought 330,000; one letter from Beethoven, 116,000; one from Descartes, 48,000. For a letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a bit of verse...
...fortnight ago, when Volksstimme railed against importation of a batch of U.S. made cars, Arbeiter Zeitung disclosed that the cars were for the use of the Soviet authorities...
...Bull Butter." Farm-area Congressmen had long sneered at margarine as "bull butter," had taxed it, regulated and abused it for more than half a century. Women had hardly murmured. For one thing, early margarine was not very tasty. A French chemist had stewed up the first batch from animal fats in 1869 because Napoleon III had offered a prize for a butter substitute. The result was a lardlike, greasy substance. Improved margarine, made from coconut oil, caught the public fancy during World War I. But it was not until the butter-rationed days of World War II that millions...
...Wind. It was a disaster that had made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...