Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really tough, let's insist that a record be judged, as a whole, by its final effect. This way we find that only three artists have maintained a consistently high standard along with a large output: Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, and Mildred Bailey. Ellington and Wilson are fairly well-known, even among the lowest jive-addict, but Bailey, unfortunately, is a different case. To the swing fan she is just another singer, out of touch with the present "standards" of sexy song-singing. He probably first heard her when she sang with Goodman, bought a record of their joint efforts...
...direct descendants of Founder Joseph followed his widow Emma into the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (140,000 members) with headquarters at Independence, Mo. They still hotly insist that Joseph had only one wife instead of the 28 claimed for him by Utah Mormons, ask why, if he had five children by Emma, he had none by the other...
...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...
...shall insist that nondefense spending be reduced to essentials...
With the Government clamoring for greater output of dehydrated eggs for Lend-Lease and Army & Navy supplies, G.L.T.C.'s three newly acquired plants (production: 1,500,000 lb. monthly) will be enlarged. For the duration the egg business will help keep G.L.T.C. going, but the shipowners insist that at war's end the company will once again become a full-fledged shipping concern...