Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a somnolent Southern town, war has brought a new life. That life has come in the shape of trucks rumbling through the wide, shady streets, strangers in uniform lounging on the corners, coins clinking a silvery song in cash registers, an unwonted jangle of juke boxes combing the thick night air. Such a town is Albany (pop. 19,055) on the sandy plains of southern Georgia...
...American radio program. A neat, nimble pianist, he gave one of his infrequent Manhattan recitals. A fledgling composer, he heard the first performance of his rambling, Spain-inspired piece, Soliloquy, in Cincinnati, then joined the Cincinnati Symphony in a crashing performance of the Tchaikovsky "juke box" piano concerto...
...restrictions were clamped on washing machines (large companies cut to 60% of last year's average), juke boxes (to one-fourth by February), "one-armed bandits" (no slot machines at all after January...
...time the bulk of the civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about 12,000 employes) were...
...disillusionment of the century and the last thwarted survivors of the age of progress. Two years' ago I was sufficiently interested to write a column on the "Tchaikowski Question." Today, with the world tottering about my head, the strains of "Moon-Love" or "Concerto for Two" crupting from every juke-box in the country, and a superior order of intellectuals debating the problem in higher epistolary fashion, I can only reiterate the main conclusions I came to then: that in my opinion the "Romco and Juliet" fantasy and the last three symphonies are great music, that the two concertos...