Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long has it been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their...
...force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
...novel feature of the new Dartmouth indoor hockey rink, under construction at the present time, is the lettering "Dartmouth College" on the roof, to be a lofty guide for aeroplanes. The letters are to be about 20 feet in height and to extend the whole length of the building...
...Atlanta, Ga., Bess, fox terrier, went up with her master in an airplane to make her 20th parachute jump. At a height of 1,500 feet she was dropped over the side, swaddled in paraphernalia. She fell swiftly all the way; the parachute did not open. When mechanics approached the limp bundle on the field, they saw ripples under the cloth, saw Bess emerge and lope off toward the hangar where she sleeps...
High High Wind. Towering over Anacostia, D. C. to test a new climbing plane, the Navy's high flyer Apollo Soucek, holder of the U. S. altitude record (39,140 ft.) encountered a 60 m. p. h. wind at a height of six miles. Up and down he frisked to study its prevalent direction. It blew steadily from the west. Visionary. Apollo Soucek foresaw the day of multi-motored transports roaring out of the west at these heights, driven by this raging gale, across the continent in half the standard 30 hrs. now needed...