Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
...more years to build the machine. Many operations can be done by laymen, with the use of a code book prepared by a mathematician. The operator feeds a problem into the machine by punching holes in a tape in a coded sequence. The tape then rolls over a drum, which picks up the message by means of mechanical feelers and closes electrical circuits that start the calculation process...
What Juan Trippe proposed was not only a revolution in speed and comfort in airline travel, but also a revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...States. The rest is local material, ranging from the reading of war correspondence in the area to burlesques such as McGoo's Booze Hour ("Next time you visit your PX take home a handy family-size container of McGoo's Old Man in the convenient 60-gallon drum...
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 ("Drum Roll") (Halle Orchestra, Leslie Heward conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Rather heavy-handed version of an ingratiating classic. Performance : fair. Recording : fair...