Word: fischer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed a new publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other important cinema company, will have its own music publishers. And Radio Corp. will now be financially interested in practically every...
...Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed out, royalties from the sale of copies and records would go not only to Fischer and Feist but also to Radio Corp.'s NBC (actually Radio Corp. owns 50% of NBC, General Electric owns 30%, Westinghouse owns...
With Carl G. Fischer he cruised...
...John S. Fischer was nominated over E. A. Beidelman; William S. Vare's primary partner...
Vitally important is the synthesizing of hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood. Hans Fischer, 47, of the Munich (Germany) Institute of Technology worked on the problem 17 years and, last week, reported success. His synthetic he calls Hematine. In normal breathing, the blood's hemoglobin, which includes hemochromogen (compound of hematin), takes oxygen from the lungs and forms unstable oxyhemoglobin. Oxyhemoglobin readily gives its oxygen to body cells. When carbon monoxide is breathed, very stable carbon monoxide hemoglobin* results and the body cells cannot burn off their wastes, death results. In such poisoning Prof...