Word: disc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest growing businesses in the U. S., with an annual gross of some $36,000,000. Every disc-buying jitterbug knows that records have been booming, but why, and just how much, has been anybody's guess. Last week in a figure-packed survey, FORTUNE put an end to guessing...
During the first quarter of the century records had their first boom. Disc-fans of that period paid the late Enrico Caruso alone some $3,000,000 in record royalties. What they paid for was a croaking shadow of Caruso's ringing voice. But in the days of hand-cranked Victrolas, even shadows were marvels of scientific progress. When the radio arrived in the early 20s, Victor Talking Machine Co., with Caruso as its biggest name, was doing more than half the industry's business to the tune of more than $50,000,000 annually...
...cussing: As predicted here three weeks ago, Martha Tilton has left Benny Goodman's band to marry the manager, her place being taken by Louise Tobin, who when last heard at Nick's, was very good . . . Charlie Barnet's "Only A Rose" is the best disc he has done so far . . . The Nelson of "Wave-A-Stick Blues" is a clever ditty on the night-mares of a band-leader . . . First we were given Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, then Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing, then Paul Whiteman and his Swing Strings. this week uncovers the Sax Sockette...
...bombers, their red-disc insignia plain to their victims below, maneuvered into position. In the twilight, soon made more brilliant by a full moon, they divided, one formation concentrating over Dujugai, another heading for the city's congested southern district, another concentrating on the hilltops where consulates are located...
...Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 5 sides). One of Mozart's important symphonies gets its first recording, and a brilliant one. Two numbers from the lusty Handel-Beecham ballet suite. The Gods Go aBegging, fill out the last disc...