Word: muzak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selections between the familiar and the obscure. Adeste Fidelis is included, but so is a very simple and fine carol by one John Billings, called A Virgin Unspotted. The unhackneyed pieces, together with the unhackneyed approach, remove the record from the realm of Christmas tree baubles and Muzak in Filene's basement...
...reasons why. In Portsmouth, Ohio, they snipped the ribbons on Ward's first new retail store in the U.S. since 1941. It is a modern, $1,500,000, four-story affair, alive with the new-fangled customer conveniences alien to Ward's old-fashioned approach of yesteryear-Muzak, air conditioning, gleaming counter displays...
...SENATOR WILLIAM BENTON, Connecticut Democrat, board chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica and Muzak Corp., in PRINTERS...
Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who hates to pass up a good deal, last week was busy roping still another hotel into his bulging corral. Hilton announced that he had bought Houston's lavish (TV, air conditioning, Muzak, a 165-ft. swimming pool), 1,100-room Shamrock Hotel, opened in 1949 by Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy. The seller was the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which took over the $21 million hotel in 1952 as part payment on a defaulted $34 million loan to McCarthy Oil & Gas Corp. Equitable's price to Hilton: $18 million, including $7,000,000 for 500 surrounding...
Sallying forth from Tam O'Shanter's modernistic, Muzak-wired clubhouse (228 employees, a rash of bars, a swimming pool), Promoter May made occasional rounds of the course with a happy, proprietary air. Far too lavish to make a profit, the tournament's whopping deficit is being underwritten by May's firm of efficiency experts (680 staffers, $8,000,000 yearly sales), which will efficiently charge it off to promotion and publicity. Onetime Bible Salesman May got into golf because so many of his business prospects were found on tees. His fortunes have not always been...