Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lacerated joys and sunny sorrows of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Chippie Hill survive only in the grooves of phono graph records, but their way with a song has been a lesson to every singer right down to Rosemary Clooney and Eartha Kitt. Lizzie is surviving handsomely, in person. Her voice has a brazen ring and a driving spirit; if she sings a bit flat here and there, she is always steady on the beat. Above all, she brings an au hentic echo of a past jazz age that the youngsters in her audience never knew and the oldtimers tearfully...
Buyers seemed unconcerned that prices were about 20% above previous models, the new machines often gave many times 20% more production. For example a ten-ton machine built by Lapointe Ma-:hine Tool Co. of Hudson, Mass, can turn out Ford connecting rods at a 1,200-an-hour clip, more than twice the speed of earlier machines. An automatic screwdriver made by Pneuma-Serve, Inc., Cleveland, which shoots screws into position and then drives them home, stepped up production 800% in one operation at the New York Progressive Wood Heel Co. of Brooklyn...
...only "guns and crazy money," where he found only a day-to-day, dreamless darkness-then a dreary round of petty stickups, a dead cop, the final terror of sitting on a couch, holding an innocent family at bay. Now, despite "the grief I'm causin' Ma," there was no exit. "I wouldn't last four hours if I went out on the street. Those coppers wouldn't give me a chance...
...Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation: "I don't know why it is, but these two do more business in my theater than most of the big pictures."-F. L. M., Spiritwood, Sask...
...moving forward. In and around the cities, bulldozers, pneumatic drills and rivet guns played an unending symphony of progress on new homes, new factories, new office buildings. The "for gotten man" of New Deal days was ven turing his capital in small businesses -millinery shops, hamburger stands, ma chine shops. In labor-union meetings, most of the talk centered on how to get new benefits, not on how to keep up with a runaway cost of living. At the office coffee breaks, the talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation...