Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this accessory industry came last week its first great merger. Known as the Bendix Aviation Corp., the new company will be 25% controlled by General Motors...
...been known ever since as the $100,000 debut, that evening of Feb. 17, 1926, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Ten thousand persons battled for admission. Standing room soared to $25. Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings...
...Best known Canadian institutions are the Universities - Toronto, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Ottawa, McGill, Queen's, Trinity, Victoria, Laval, Dalhousie. † Approximately 200 U. S. magazines and 30 newspapers are sold regularly in Canada. For U. S. magazines Canada spends some $15,000,000 yearly; for British magazines, some...
What the average citizen did not realize, what precipitated one of the loudest journalistic uproars in New England history, was an underlying chain of circumstances not visible in the simple announcement of the sale but well known to rival journalists, cranks, alarmists and vigilant patriots; a chain of circumstances which non-New Englanders viewed variously as a bit of shrewd industrial mechanism or as a sinister instrument to shackle Public Opinion, to strangle the Freedom of the Press...
...Marie Theatre and never again performed during his life. Drugs and cognac were no longer an escape from reality. Death was best. Moussorgsky died but Boris lived on, to furnish one of the strangest case histories in the literature of music. Composed in 1874, it was until last year known to the world only in a prettified version as unlike that of the original as if Murillo had painted over an El Greco, as if Tennyson had rewritten William Blake. Rimsky-Korsakov, good friend of Moussorgsky, composer of Sheherazade, La Coq d'Or and Sadko, professor and purist...