Word: g
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to admit the feasibility of a 900 m.p.h. airplane, 120 m.p.h. faster than the speed of sound, twice as fast as man has ever flown, nearly thrice as fast as man has traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more to bombard an enemy, could then retreat...
...Cole Porter's. The melody may resort to chromatic tricks that such a perfect craftsman as Vincent Youmans would reject as unsound. But a Rodgers & Hart song usually has the power of a single musical expression, which not even such a pair of individual talents as P. G. Wodehouse & Jerome Kern could ever quite pull...
...must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual experience was to hand in a score and, when the picture was produced, to find the score either missing or massacred. Once they worked for 15 months at M-G-M., and turned out only five songs. Says Rodgers: "In New York we often write five songs in one week. In three weeks we did the entire score of I'd Rather Be Right...
...G. W. U. pioneered workers' education in the U. S. The union was founded in 1900 among garment workers in Manhattan, most of them immigrants. It taught them English and unionism. It soon found that its members, some of them cultured refugees from the old country, had unusual zeal for learning. In 1917 the young union started an education department, got famed Historian Charles A. Beard as consultant, opened a night-time Workers' "University" in Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, to teach labor doctrine and American history. Today I. L. G. W. U.'s education...
...G. W. U. believes that a union officer can afford to have a foreign accent but an organizer cannot. Most popular courses, however, are the history of I. L. G. W. U. and the U. S. labor movement, labor problems & the news, public speaking, parliamentary law. Recently the union made a rule that no one may be elected a paid officer unless he has finished a training course...