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...Cleveland Symphony, Orchestra, offers a fresh opportunity to hear this great work, and its miracles of beauty and power. The recording supplies a long-standing need for a good rendition of the symphony, as there has been heretofore nothing but Stokowski's old Victor album, full of the cheapest kind of distortion and the most cloying saccharinity. Rodzinski plays the symphony with verve, but straightforwardly. He brings out not the sobbing emotionalism which people profess to find in Tchaikowski, but the wonderful melodic flow, the freedom of motion, and the unfailing dramatic sense. If, as someone told me, the original...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

Flint-Goodridge also boasts the cheapest, most complete hospital insurance plan in the U. S. Cost: one cent a day. Most similar schemes, covering three weeks' hospitalization, charge at least three cents a day. If he can convince his doctors, Mr. Dent will soon start a two-cent-a-day plan to provide complete medical care as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Negro Health | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Punjah Leader Gopal Singh Himh tried to ride the Mahatma off by an attack on his behind-the-scenes tactics. "Everyone," he charged, "is ready for action except Gandhi. I demand that Gandhi become at least a four-annas member of Congress [cheapest price of membership]. ... If he wishes to lead Congress he should at least be a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi Foregoes Independence | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...light tractor selling at $515, or $225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines (which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405-cheapest in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened up the small-combine field five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Flivver Farm Machinery | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...cheapest freight rate between any two points on the U. S. railroad system used to be on carload lots. To ship three carloads or 100 did not reduce the rate be low that for one. For years the Interstate Commerce Commission has maintained that lower rates on big shipments would be free lunch for big business. On account of that, able John Lansing Beven, president of Illinois Central, was a pioneer last week. Up the I.C. tracks east of the Mississippi one of his locomotives dragged a 40-car lot of blackstrap molasses (sugar refinery residue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trainload Lots | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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