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...heyday, Jimmy certainly delivered jobs-and pay. In the 19403 he seriously crippled the recording industry for 27 months, refusing to let his musicians cut so much as one groove until record companies popped with handsome royalties, which now bring millions a year to the A.F.M. He forced network stations to pay "live" musicians whether they were needed or not, proudly claims that he raised musicmen's income 200% while he held the baton...
...heyday for scientists studying England's fogs, a unique compound of sulphur dioxide, chemical wastes, coal smoke, gasoline and diesel fumes. (The sulphur level alone last week reached 14 times the normal concentration.) The Ministry of Aviation had been waiting for just this chance to test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late...
First brought to West Africa by the Portuguese explorers of the 15th century, Christianity penetrated the continent only during the heyday of 19th century colonization. Missionaries were eager to convert, but often reluctant to see their converts grow up to join the clergy. The first Senegalese priest was ordained in 1843-but in 1900 there were only ten native clerics in French West Africa...
Through the years, they were modified and improved until-at the peak of their heyday around 1923 when 205,556 were sold in the U.S. alone-player pianos could not only play loud and soft by themselves but could reproduce every nuance of shading and expression of a Paderewski or a Gershwin (both of whom sat down at a special recording piano and cut rolls on the Duo-Art label...
...aimed to create a highly trained, professional fighting force to meet its worldwide strategic commitments. With full employment and prosperity, Englishmen are reluctant to enlist for soldier's pay ($70 per month for a private). As a result, the nation still relies, as it did in the heyday of Empire, on British-officered native troops to help man its overseas outposts. Last week the best of the overseas hirelings appeared in Britain itself; a contingent of 1,200 Gurkha troops filed off a troopship at Southampton, to become the first foreign mercenaries ever stationed on English soil...