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...Life's biologic processes went on, hastened by the stress & strain of disaster. In Milton, Pa. a baby was born in a high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In Brunswick, Me., as his wife and newborn son were rowed safely from their flooded home, grateful Emilien Racine named the child Moses. In Johnstown 653 people took refuge in a hilltop dance hall. Soon there were...
Less excitable, the police of New York City took no action last week when Brunswick Record Corp. narrowly won a hard race to be the first on the streets with a recorded U.S. version of THE FAMOUS HUNGARIAN SUICIDE SONG. The Victor and Decca companies were not long putting competing disks on sale...
...slim, wide-mouthed young man named Paul Redfern took off from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...
Meantime the price of newsprint tobogganed from a 1920 high of more than $100 per ton to about $55 per ton in 1929, then on down to a Depression low of $40. Even on its great modern paper machines at Gatineau and Three Rivers, Que.; Dalhousie, New Brunswick; and Corner Brook on the west coast of Newfoundland, International could not make enough money. But President Graustein discovered other profit sources. One was kraft paper, the common coarse bag and wrapping paper manufactured in the South. In the process of acquiring kraft companies, Mr. Graustein picked up a crack operating...
...crazy song. The successor to K-K-K-Katy (1918) and Barney Google (1923) was selling a-copy-a-minute over sheet music counters, might well go on to the fabulous two million high of Yes, We Have No Bananas (1923). The three U. S. phonograph companies (Victor. Decca, Brunswick-Columbia) were distributing the tune under their dozen-odd labels. A tie, a sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster...