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...America's Good-Will Union, was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of communists got on. Lustily they sang the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman boiled, then rose and gave voice to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over & over she sang it, pitching it higher and higher. Louder sang the Communists. At the next station more Communists got on, joined in the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman pitched "The Star-Spangled Banner" still higher. At last she was obliged to get off the train to attend a meeting of the Good-Will Union (an organization for international rapport...
...three last week, strategically placed, was what distributed the sound as though the players were on the stage, gave what engineers called "auditory perspective." The filters and amplifiers, which Stokowski manipulated, brought out the faintest whispers of the violins as they never have been brought out before. The climaxes, louder than any orchestra could have achieved unaided, were almost deafening but they were not distorted. Offstage singing was also reproduced, with force and clarity...
...week and blowing off political steam the other five. Its committee discharge rule was stiffened as a precaution against revolt. The President had been five weeks in the White House and yet his brand of magic had not yet produced a boom. The cry for currency inflation grew louder...
...packed mob is steadily increasing in volume. There is a stir on the small balcony of the building at the extreme end of the plaza, a short, black-shirted, uniformed figure steps briskly to the balustrade, and the low hum swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little man throws back his head, swings himself to and fro with both hands on the rail, rolls his eyes, and makes frightening grimaces. Gradually 1the tumult subsides, and Mussolini begins to speak...
...some 35 companies. Clarence Edward Groesbeck, his president, was picked to succeed him. And for Chairman Groesbeck the job will not be easy, for Bond & Share's four big affiliated holding companies, American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Electric Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, must deal with a louder demand for rate reductions than ever reached Chairman Mitchell's ears. Its one subsidiary, American & Foreign Power (which owns no U. S. properties), has long been deep in Depression...