Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band Leader Eddie Duchin was playing the samba in theater engagements; his samba disc Brazil was a steady seller. Duchin had spent last summer in Rio, had come back steamed up with the samba's possibilities...
...newly formed Crimson third line tied the score early in the second period. Albie Everts passed to Demi Lloyd, and Lloyd's shot in to the goal was on the ice. Kelley got his stick on the puck, but he blocked it only partially, and the disc slid into...
They warmed up two tractors, roared out to the fields to disc and drill the low-lying, gently undulant land between the well-filled streams. By the time the sun was high in the sky, at 8, they had done a full hour's work; by noon, when they went back for dinner of steak & potatoes, they had nearly finished some fields. By week's end a full 200 acres would be sown to oats-oats that would be harvested in July, fed to the sleek steers that Ralph Delair ships off to the markets...
Dartmouth moved to a 2 to 1 lead in the first stanza, Tommy Ayres accounted for the Crimson tally unassisted. Sander's second score put the Green ahead by two goals at the end of the second period. In the final canto Bill Hamlen netted the disc on a pass from Dick Whittington and Ned Harding went in all alone to send the contest into overtime...
...factories of the three big disc makers-Victor, Columbia, Decca-record-pressing machines have been stamping out discs 24 hours a day, and not only because of Christmas. Jukeboxes take 40% of their output, and lower record prices (35? and up for popular records; $1 for 12-in. concert records, plus 5% tax) have tapped a new market. In spite of the present low grade of popular tunes, recent estimates made 1941 the industry's all-time high year-120,000,000 discs. Current records...