Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Manager Arthur Judson announced a shake-up among the Philharmonic's most important and highest-paid wind players. Trumpeter Harry Glantz, U.S. champion in his class, was promptly snapped up by the rival NBC Orchestra. Massive Flutist John Amans, famed for his ability to make his tootling instrument boom like a church organ, was retired, replaced by the NBC Orchestra's Pennsylvania-born John Wummer. World's champion French Horn Player Bruno Jaenicke, suffering from a heart ailment, prepared to spend the rest of his career sitting on the sidelines while a younger man, Rudolph Puletz...
Delighted to read of the "gremlins" in this week's issue. They must be distant cousins of the "saskwatchs" who come up from the Penticton beam every night and ride along over the Cascade mountain range on our Trip 4. They jump off over Cranbrook and do an instrument letdown into the Kootenay valley to visit friends there, returning several hours later on Trip...
...major part of its vast machine-tool, precision-instrument and other industries had been moved beyond the Urals. So Leningrad, to produce its own guns and shells, had to depend on the remaining fraction of its industries...
Died. Colonel William C. Ocker, 66, "father of blind flying"; in Washington. He early noted that pilots grew accustomed to flying by "feel" and then tended to ignore their instruments. His research led the Army to require blind-flying training for every pilot. He invented the widely used "black box" for ground training-students sat on a swivel chair, peered inside a box at an instrument panel, guided their "plane" without seeing their surroundings...
...instrument of power...