Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concert is to open with Haydn's Symphony No. 86 in D major, one of the "Paris Symphonies" composed about 1786. Owing to some indisposition of Dr. Koussevitzky's, little Richard Burgin, Concert Master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will conduct both the music of Loffler and Haydn...
While Copilot Clyde Russell sprayed a fire extinguisher on the burning wing, Pilot Dave Hissong coolly took his time, retracted his wheels, came down belly-flat in a ditch-scarred field. Steward Frank Gibbs shoved each man as far into the open air as he could. They had not stumbled more than 20 yards when flames swept through the cabin...
Thus last week ended the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress of U. S. Roman Catholics. At the four-day meeting in New Orleans were most of the U. S. hierarchy, thousands of priests and laity. The weather was persistently bad. Once the rain poured down during an open-air mass which could not be interrupted, and which ended with a blessing broadcast from Castel Gandolfo by Pope Pius...
Interest on policy loans has long been a fulcrum for attacks on the investment feature of life insurance. Why, asked critics, should life insurance companies be allowed to charge 6% for lending customers' own funds back to them when open market and commercial-bank money rates range from...
...favorite public relations stunt of big companies is to show customers or the public through their factories. Last May Western Electric Co. held open house in its Hawthorne Works at Chicago primarily for employes and their friends. The employes liked it so much that last week Western Electric held open house in its big Point Breeze plant near Baltimore. During the week 25,000 people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance...