Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest this cut throat competition spill too much of aviation's lifeblood, United's President William Allan Patterson approached T.W.A., American, Pan American and Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed...
...night, after drinking a little too much, Reporter Bellairs tried to drive a horse & buggy across the Mississippi River...
Frankie & Johnnie (Ethel Waters; Bluebird). Vocalist Waters and a gifted arrangement turn a ballad hitherto sung as funny fiddle-faddle into a tragic folk tale, with much the same quality found in Artist Thomas Benton's garish Frankie & Johnnie mural...
Last Sunday U. S. radio listeners heard some of the music from the Library's stacks. Howard Barlow led Columbia Broadcasting Symphony through ten waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries. The titles of the pieces told much of Vienna's ballroom life-Electrophor polka and Motoren waltzes, written for dances of technical students; Aesculap polka and Paroxysmen waltzes, for young medicos. A quadrille on English themes contained the tune of Just Before the Battle, Mother. The pieces, some performed for the first time in the U. S., did not call for waltzing...
...would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...