Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dynamo that turns this enthusiasm into operatic production is intense, thickset, greying Yolanda Mero-lrion, wife of Hermann Irion, a Steinway Piano Co. executive, now a Washington dollar-a-year man. Impresario Irion first came to the U.S. in 1909 as a well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers...
...high-powered engines, tested on schedule, power production becomes possible. More important was the difficulty of coupling a high-speed engine to a low-speed generator, of obtaining uniform, dependable voltage regardless of the ups & downs in speed and number of the engines under test. Now a variable-speed dynamo unit replaces the propeller, produces power instead of wind...
...months ago in Washington, a squat dynamo of a man, full of strange contradictions and flashing talents, urged increased U.S. production of everything from bacon to bombers. "Bottlenecks, to me," explained Lord Beaverbrook, "used to symbolize pleasure-now they're a pain in the neck." Last week, Max Aitken, once of New Castle, N.B., now Lord Beaverbrook of London, stuck his neck out for new pains. He became Minister of War Production...
...biggest industrial center-where Russia gave birth to its first tractor, first dynamo, first blooming mill; which annually produced nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of finished goods all the way from ships to binoculars, locomotives to electric light filaments...
Bubbling Bob, better than ever, is the vehicle's only Hope, and keeps the show rolling with a laugh every minute on the minute. Known as the human bat, cannonball, and dynamo, he fights his way through cannibals, a gorilla, and a Crosby, but is not sugar-daddy enough to win marsh-mallow-momma Lamour...