Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only since people learned to hear even subtle variations in the apparent repetition of jazz the great fugues of Bach became approachable to the masses...
...nervous about bringing their children to the New York World's Fair, Dr. John L. Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, was reassuring: "In the years 1937 and 1938 the incidence of the disease was very low and this year, up to the present time, it is even lower. No one can predict the future of poliomyelitis accurately, but based on our present knowledge, no one need fear infantile paralysis in New York City this year...
...A.S.H. after his name meant "Author of Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished...
Without Midvale's contribution, Baldwin's order book would now be only about 40% of what it is. But if Baldwin stockholders can count on Midvale to keep their company from bogging down in depression, they cannot count on Midvale to do more than help Baldwin break even on its huge capacities (as it is barely doing now). Prosperity for Baldwin still depends on when U. S. railroad buying will come back...
Baldwin Locomotive Works today depends on non-railroad buying for half of its sales in even a good railroad buying year. At present, 80% of Baldwin's unfilled orders come from its hedges against bad locomotive business. Of this, Mid-vale's $18,500,000 backlog adds up to the biggest single lump, 73%. Its presiding genius, handsome, abstemious Dr. Harry L. Frevert, lives from one ballistic test to the next, his only concern the race between armor-piercing shells and shellproof armor...