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...Quintet, which harks back to 18th-Century simplicity, was shrewdly judged so good by Soviet officials that in March 1941 they awarded Shostakovich a Stalin prize of 100,000 rubles for it (about 19,000 U.S. dollars), the biggest coin ever paid for a piece of chamber music...
...other side of Albany's new-found coin was not so shiny. The bars in Albany's two best hotels are crowded nightly with Albany girls, Air Corps officers and men. (British cadets get only $12.50 a week, train hard, go to bed early...
...civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about 12,000 employes) were...
Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...will be ready to play against Yale. Harlow, however, has not yet decided which of his two right ends will start. Morgan and Don Forte are still on even terms, and the race is so close that Harlow is actually thinking of, deciding it by the toss of a coin...