Word: berge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelman who disagrees with the industry's views-that present capacity, plus 2,500,000 tons expansion already planned, is enough-is Harold J. Rutten-berg, onetime crack economist for the C.I.O. steelworkers' union and now vice president of the Portsmouth Steel Corp. He thinks that the U.S. needs about 10 million tons of added capacity. To get it, Ruttenberg told the New York Society of Security Analysts that the steel industry should have more incentive to expand. To offset the inflated cost of expansion, the Government, said he, should give preferential tax treatment to steel profits spent...
Louis Armstrong had forsaken the ways of Mammon and come back to jazz. Shorn of his big (19-piece), brassy, ear-splitting commercial band (TIME, April 29, 1946), he was as happy as a five-year-old with his curls cut off. Billy Berg's neon & chromium Los Angeles jazz temple wasn't big enough to hold the faithful who thronged to welcome him back...
Wherry--Burrowes, Clapp, Nilsson, Page. Compromise--Middendorf, Murphy, Preston, Savarit. 155-Pound Singles--Snow, Sprout. Novice Singles--Barroll, Bisbee, Brewer, Queeny. Junior Singles--Berg, Carpenter, Clement, Getchell. Senior Singles--Day, Dowd Eisenstein, Eldridge...
...dusky St. Louis song-&-dance woman (Josephine Baker) had ruled the jungle of the Folies Bergère clad only in several bananas" [TIME, June 16]. This is a wonderful typographical error (bandanas), priceless...
...Berg: Wozzeck (Charlotte Boerner, soprano, with the Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 4 sides). This difficult opera, a kind of Nordic and atonal Carmen, was violently criticized at its Berlin premiere in 1925, was the first work of art to be damned as Kulturbolschewismus by the rising Nazis. These excerpts give only a sketchy idea of the late Alban Berg's score. Performance: good...