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...this year, manufacturers made one remarkable discovery: that people will buy cheap records of good music, even if the records are indifferently performed by anonymous musicians. Last week, on the heels of cheap symphonies for newspaper promotion, a new series of anonymous discs was on sale, the cheapest yet: 29? for a ten-inch disc. The records were issued by Musicraft Records, Inc. of Manhattan...
Contracts for constructing the interior have not yet been signed. Parkhurst said, because officials haven't decided whether to weld or hold the building's framework. The cheapest method of construction, riveting, has been banned because of the noise, which according to Parkhurst would cause the resignation of every professor working in Widener...
...engines purring, at the English Channel, the nervous U. S. public wanted to know what the Defense Commission was up to. Where were the results? There were none to exhibit. Motormaker Knudsen was tooling up industry to produce the armed forces' materiel, giving orders to the best, quickest, cheapest manufacturers, easing industry on to a war footing. Meantime Congress, the President, the Army & Navy kept expanding their objectives. Not until late July did the U. S. defense program jell into: 1) a two-ocean Navy, 2) equipment (tanks, guns, artillery, ammunition, etc.) for a 2,000,000-man Army...
...weeding out the amateurs, enlisting Britain's best directors, actors and technicians for a week at a time to help with their 500-foot glimpses of the country at work & play in wartime. They turn out their shorts for $2,000 each (one-tenth the cost of the cheapest Hollywood "quickie"). To sell the glories of factory work they show oomph girls assembling shells in a munitions plant...
...always insisted on standing uncommitted on the side lines of the European conflict, until a menace to our own interests compelled us to intervene. We long ago realized that the best and cheapest way of assuring our own security was to encourage other nations to fight for their own security, and when there was doubt about their ability to do so to assist them with finance and, if necessary, with arms." The U. S. does not aspire to a position of world responsibility and power; its desire is still for isolation without responsibility...