Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat Major (Salomon No. 4) (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Another first recording, competently performed...
...lifeline to a sinking friend, once-honored General Umberto Nobile. Mussolini had busted Airman Nobile out of the service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...
...also free. Proud setting hawk of unique Lewis Holy Name is Founder Bishop Bernard James Sheil of Chicago, who nursed it from a fledgling (in 1932) in one hangar, one building and a cow pasture to lusty, soaring adolescence. A pious local farmer donated 620 flat acres; rich Chicago Manufacturer Frank J. Lewis financed 14 roomy buildings (the gymnasium is a memorial to son Joseph, killed in a plane crash). By this year's end, air-minded Bishop Sheil expects to have three more big runways, a 180-acre improved landing field, an approved CAA flying school rating...
...morning of June 1, 1938, black-robed Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down from his huge bench in Manhattan's gleaming new U. S. courthouse upon a bank of lawyers. Standing at the flat, mahogany counsel table with a sheaf of notes, earnest, tousle-headed Walter Lyman Rice, trust-busting Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, was ready to give his opening outline of a lawsuit to dissolve $253,000,000 Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly in restraint of trade...
...Blend the wage scale with a profit-sharing differential and the same human being who was previously concentrating his attention on wages will discard the combative spirit-his self-preservation instinct previously centred only on a flat wage scale will cease...