Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested, the one gift she would like most to have this year is either an automobile, a fur coat, some household appliance, a radio or radio-phonograph, some clothes, a trip, or a home (one asked for a man and an engagement ring and another, bless her, would like a five-year subscription to TIME). Furthermore, the average TIME-reading woman thinks the chances are pretty good that she will get the gift she wants...
...marble walls of the great Council Hall were red and the draperies in back of the platform were red, and militantly red were the old Socialist hymns blared forth by the phonograph. But the mood of the delegates was a pale pink like the carnations in many of their buttonholes...
Colored Pins. Last Sunday's sale was another triumph for Liberty's special brand of mass production plus carnival barking. For weeks desperate couples had besieged Sales Manager Joseph Chernus, a serious, slight ex-phonograph salesman and ex-G.I. But he stalled them off, told them to come back on land-rush...
...Fever. In his training camp at an amusement park overlooking a pond, Jersey Joe (real name: Arnold Cream) likes to sneak off to his room and play the phonograph, singing along with his favorite Ink Spots and Savannah Churchill records. At night he talks by telephone with each of his six kids. When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says...
Fall. Westinghouse Electric, following the lead of many another radiomaker, cut its radio prices from 13% to 20%. Samples: $79.95 retail for an AM-FM table model (formerly $99.95), $499.95 for a radio-phonograph combination (formerly...