Word: horned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera put up its surprise closing notice, ideas on how to save the Met, and how to improve it, had popped up with the frequency of horn cues in a Wagner opera...
...just gone off the air. The boys in the studio orchestra slowly began to pack up their instruments before heading for home or a Sixth Avenue bar. One man, a short, slender trumpeter with a tiny mustache, was in a hurry. Robert Leo Hackett stowed away his shining horn, flung out a hurried good night and left. Twenty minutes later he slipped into Nick's famed Greenwich Village jazz-and-gin mill, and stepped to the leader's place on the stand where five other musicians were waiting...
...turn out 30% of its manufacturing there. The replacement of basing points by f.o.b. pricing had boosted the company's steel bill $9.20 a ton, and it would save money by being at Pittsburgh. Encouraged by the plant shift, the Pittsburgh Industrial Development Council began tootling its horn to attract other fugitives from freight charges. But Detroit, which uses twice as much steel as it produces, started a campaign to make more. Said. its board of commerce: "We have iron ore going right past our door. We have limestone . . . [All] we need is coal...
...first speaker of the day-of any of the five convention days-advanced to the microphone, floor and galleries began filling up, and the convention came alive. Photographers jostled in belligerent knots, each holding a camera to his eye like a unicorn adjusting his horn. Heat and humidity rose. Coats came off and the face of the crowd moved with the urgent fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans. Within minutes it was hot enough to grow orchids...
John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...