Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for the harmonica. James Caesar Petrillo declared that it was a sure-enough, wage-earning musical instrument, and that professional harmonica players would have to join his musicians' union. Beamed Petrillo: "Now that it's getting so that people want to hear harmonicas, we're going to take them in. I'm for the people...
Impressed by the 300,000 instrument landings with G.C.A., the U.S. Air Force this week gave Gilfillan Brothers a new $6,000,000 contract for 30 additional installations. (The Air Force now operates 92.) By year's end, Gilfillan expected to triple its gross (from $4,600,000 to $13 million), boost employment from...
Using all the tricks of variation he likes so well, Benjy Britten had made Composer Johann Christoph Pepusch's original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances...
...Cominform, founded last year in Poland, is the Communist instrument to bind the satellites to Russia. Ana, through her unswerving loyalty to Stalin, has risen in the Cominform. Now, Andrei Zhdanov, once its guiding spirit, is dead. Tito, once its most powerful member, is in disgrace. (The seat of the Cominform, has been formally transferred from Belgrade to Bucharest.) Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, co-chairman with Zhdanov of the first Cominform meeting, has just been demoted after a row with Moscow (see below). Albania has been cut off by Tito's defection. Communist power in Czechoslovakia...
...success of GCA was something for U.S. commercial lines and the Civil Aeronautics Administration to study. Though commercial pilots have generally preferred ILS (instrument landing system) because they control landings themselves, many a commercial pilot on airlift duty has now been won over to GCA. Said one last week: "When I think of all the hours I've spent stacked up in the soup over New York, maybe this is the answer...