Word: olin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still the King. A year ago the U.S. thought a by-product of aluminum expansion would be the breaking of Alcoa's 50-year monopoly. Many other companies-notably Reynolds Metals, Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum-seemed eager to cut into the field, especially since the U.S. Government was ready to finance them 100%. But Alcoa is now making 750,000,000 lb. and has taken 512,000,000 lb. of the Government's first 640,000,000 expansion and every pound of the second 640,000,000-lb. project. Result: in March 1943 the Alcoa trade-mark will...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House what language they thought opera should be sung in. What a question! Operas are given there as they are written, in French, German, Italian. But last week the Metropolitan Opera Guild collected a jury in its famed red-and-gold interior. Critic Olin Downes argued for opera in the composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then in English...
...variations on a general theme. We haven't seen that there is essentially as much difference between one film and another as there is between a symphony and a jam session. That example might stand us in good stead, incidentally; "Downbeat" doesn't try to judge Toscanini, nor does Olin Downes rip into Benny Goodman's work. Why ignore this demarcation when it comes to movies...
...orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th birthday season...
When the Government started its suit, Alcoa had in fact no competition in the U.S. But defense needs and RFC loans have since put one competitor, Reynolds Metals, into the aluminum business, with three more-Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum, Union Carbide & Carbon-on the point of joining the fray if Jesse Jones's Defense Plant Corp. ever gets around to signing the papers. Nevertheless the Government will appeal Judge Caffey's decision to the Supreme Court...