Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end two cars arrived at La Guardia field, bearing the departing Russians, a dozen suitcases, several cartons of cigarettes and 155 Ibs. of excess baggage. Under his arm, Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei...
...figure we have earned everything we got," he said. Last year, he spent $3,000 remodeling his kitchen-an electric stove, automatic dishwashing machine, a big Deepfreeze, a whole set of fancy kitchen cabinets. He has "three or four" radios around the house, including a radio-phonograph for the kids; his four barns are in top shape. This year he is thinking of putting concrete floors in the feeding lots. It will cost him $600 to $700. "We're being cautious," said Bob Orr. "I'm not buying a thing that isn't absolutely necessary...
Sounds Corny. Neither of Peter's Italian-born parents was a musician, but for their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including...
Dress manufacturers, who had pushed high-priced fancy items in the days of shortage, were producing dresses at an average wholesale price of less than $9. Philco Corp. cut its radio and radio-phonograph prices as much as $60 (sample: a $44.95 table model cut to $14.95). Consolidated Cigar Corp. put a 9? price on its 10? Harvester and La Palina cigars...
...keep: a $1,000 U.S. savings bond; a man's and woman's wardrobe, each valued at $1,500; a year's supply of candy, flowers, shaving lotion and cologne; free haircuts for five years; a $1,200 living room suite; a $1,000 radio-phonograph-television set; two complete fishing outfits; enough paint to redo her eight-room, two-bath house; $1,000 worth of groceries (she can select a needy family for another $1,000 worth); a $2,700 1949 Kaiser sedan...