Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indicated is the Transcontinental Air Transport system which is promised to go into effect this summer. T. A. T. is the hook-up of the Pennsylvania and Santa Fe railroads with planes. Passengers will take an overnight train from New York to Columbus, Ohio. Thence they will go by air to Waynoka, Okla. From Waynoka to Clovis, N. M. is a one-night train ride. Thence planes go to Los Angeles and San Francisco...
Five years Engineer Woolson and his research staff at the Packard plant have labored designing the motor. They had, first, the diesel principle to go on, i.e., that air can be heated by compression until hot enough to ignite a jet of fuel...
...purchasing power of wages is almost 15% greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about 17%, manufacturing and transportation about 28%. Greatest increase has come in per capita production, which increased 35% between...
Will the U. S. musician soon go where the motor is supposed to have sent the horse? That is the question which President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians was trying to answer at the Federation's convention in Denver this week. An unemployment crisis, now acute, started in 1926 when Warner Bros., as licensee of Western Electric Co., introduced to Manhattan audiences the Vitaphone. In 1927, Fox Film Corp. gave its first public demonstration of Movietone. Today, approximately 2,000 theatres throughout the land have been wired for sound picture showing...
Where are the musicians to go? Three years ago it was practically impossible for a symphony manager to persuade a good man to change his job. Today there are 20 applications for every vacancy. Except for the Boston Symphony, every orchestra is unionized. Each organization employs approximately 100 men. The minimum wage scale runs from $90 weekly (NewYork Philharmonic-Symphony) to $60. The cost of subsidizing a symphony orchestra is staggering. Guarantors must be prepared to spend from $100,000 to $200,000 yearly. Under such circumstances, new symphony orchestras have not been and are unlikely to be springing...