Word: changer
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...record changer has a double tone arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at once. Records are dropped from the stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...
There are no more evenings now of dressing to the ears and listening for hours on end to the stupendous heroics of Richard Wagner; no more evenings lying on his army cot at home as his Siemens record-changer riffles through the ponderous Germanisms of his other favorite, Anton Bruckner...
...needles and put it through some tests and see what happened. A perfectly new RCA Victor record was selected to show up any imperfection due to wearing of the record surface or of the needle. It and the needle were put on an RCA Victor victoria with automatic record changer that had just been adjusted and checked...
Playwright Hellman describes the Hubbards as people who "eat the earth." But she has not made them all of one piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...
...Philadelphia's leading Mormon, will move his laboratory out to Capehart's streamlined plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. The old General Household plant at nearby Marion will be used for manufacturing. With a complete line of radios, phonographs and radio-phonographs, besides Capehart's record-changer patents, Farnsworth Corp. will have something to keep it busy while'television is turning the corner...