Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Far-reaching proposals to speed defense output--including a general six-day week in defense industries and government authority to draft labor as well as industry "if the situation gets serious enough"--were urged today by Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore aircraft manufacturer...
...Best sweet: Glenn Miller, nosing out Tommy Dorsey...
...panic was on. Band leaders like Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye, Eddy Duchin decided not to take the legal risks involved in being wired onto sustaining network broadcasts, and at week's end the networks were showing a willingness to give the band leaders protection provided arrangements were submitted to them a week before being aired. Those bands that risked it were subjected to grueling auditions by the networks' lawyers and tune detectives. B. M. I. took out $1,000,000 worth of copyright insurance...
Since January 1 when ASCAP and the major broadcasting systems began their fight, the public has been on the receiving end of a bewildering galaxy of forgotten tunes. Rhumbas and all kinds of Spanish and French songs stuff the ether waves. Tunes like Tales of the Vienna Woods and Glenn Miller's swing version of The Volga Boatman are being played a hundred times a day. Hardest hit was the Lucky Strike Hit Parader, which had a sad time scaring up enough pieces to fill its heretofore overcrowded fifteen honor spots. Fred Waring has had to give up his theme...
...Glenn Martin has a $131,000,000 order for about 1,000 B-26s, last week had the first 20-odd moving rapidly along his assembly line. The best news of his plane last week was not its performance (1,000-mile range, 3,000 to 4,000 Ib. of bombs) but the fact that it was approved. The experimental model which was flown last week ordinarily would have received weeks of further testing by the Air Corps, then more time would have been taken for changes. After all that, Maker Martin could have gone ahead with real production (until...