Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time musician resented Petrillo or particularly criticized his royal plan for dispensing royalties. For Petrillo had at least blasted a way toward discussion of the ownership of canned music. The antiquated U.S. copyright laws provide that only the copyright owner shall receive music royalties -ignoring the musician and recording firm, the artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question, but he was a man with a lever...
...mystery began last month with a letter to most of Follansbee's 2,000 stock holders from a New York firm called 625 Associates, Inc. The associates promised stockholders $50 a share for stock listed at about $30 on the New York Stock Exchange. Although Wall Streeters had never heard of 625 Associates, options began pouring in to its Empire State Building office. Follansbee's stock became the most active on the Big Board: in twelve days it jumped about ten points...
Although the H.A.A. is still receiving new batches of applications with each delivery of the mail, established coaches are continuing to display a firm reluctance against descending on Cambridge en masse. Since the Harvard demand for a good team developed sans good material remains adamant, energetic young high-school mentors, with nothing to lost but their time, make up the bilk of applicants. Most of them are unaware that Harvard places a greater emphasis on chemistry than on punting...
...university are founded on a "charter of free inquiry," he pointed out. Any barriers to "an objective analysis of every phase of our national life are not only harmful to the security of the nation, but also delay the "conversion of the present armed truce into a firm and lasting peace...
...National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, an organization which rests on a firm foundation of women's clubs, startled everyone by picking Charles Chaplin's controversial Monsieur Verdoux, a bitter satire which had been coldly received by most reviewers. Great Expectations again ran second...