Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini took his NBC Symphony to Carnegie Hall...
...over & above its normal $33,000,000 a year. > Duke Power Co., which powers 7,000,000 cotton spindles (25% of those working in the U. S.), is spending $8,000,000 on an 80,000 kilowatt plant on the Yadkin River. > At Oswego, N. Y., Niagara Hudson is doubling its local 80,000 kilowatt capacity, spending...
...high bridge, Roberts had time to glance aloft, see the sky blotted out by the crest of the wave before it broke over them, hurled men the entire length of the bridge. Small sounds in the Niagara thunder of the blow were the smashing of glass, furniture, superstructure, screams of passengers that the ship was going down, shrieks of the injured...
Richard H. Flnn, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., who received an A.B. magna cum laude last June and who was the Latin crator at Commencement exercises, was awarded the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize...
...Three U. S. utility magnates, Floyd Carlisle (Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison) and Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern), are lawyers Only C. (for Clarence) E. (for Edward) Groesbeck (Electric Bond & Share) is an operating man, trained climbing poles instead of chasing commas. Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes his own way, is also different in another respect. He figures that the Administration has the money and the power, that there is more percentage in trading with the New Deal than in bucking it. Last week this notion of his began to pay dividends...