Word: penobscot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Penobscot to San Pedro the corridors of U. S. public buildings echoed last week-as for four weeks before-with the tread of tentative but determined feet. Faced with the greatest defense crisis in U. S. history, young folks were mobilizing. Their march led to no military camp but to the marriage-license bureau. From hundreds of churches and magistrates' offices paraded husky young men, brides on their arms, who preferred Mendelssohn to Sousa...
...Magic Music's headquarters in the Penobscot Building, studio operators, working six-hour tricks with telephone-girl's headsets, paraded back & forth before long rows of phonograph turntables, each supplying a different bar or nightclub. As patrons dropped their nickels into the slot and phoned their requests, the operators consulted their elaborately cross-indexed files, picked the disc from among 8,000 titles, played it back to the club the request came from. To music-hungry Detroiters, the climax of the evening came when they discovered they could have their requests played not only in their...