Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moore started worrying about Christmas windows in October, combed Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum for inspiration, finally decided to illustrate "some of those silly old sayings...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Bohème, with Bidu Sayao...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
...loud, emotionless precision. In the darkness out front several hundred listeners crowded around small tables, stood three deep at the bar, or sat in straight-backed chairs in an upholstered bull pen. On the mirror in the far corner of the Royal Roost, foot-high enamel letters spelled out "Metropolitan Bopera House...
Transcontinental hopes to deliver 340 million cu. ft. of gas a day, at a cost of approximately 31? per 1,000 cu. ft. This is so far below the present cost of manufactured gas in New York that nine utility companies in the metropolitan area have already signed up as customers...