Word: phonographic
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Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...hint was directed at the independent stations which still sell him time. Last week one famed independent radioman, President Elliott Roosevelt of the Texas State Radio network, put in a biting 2? worth. On one of his thrice-weekly newscasts over Mutual Broadcasting System sponsored by Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp., Radioman Roosevelt blurted...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...half-a-dozen U. S. cities last week, hundreds of people walked into newspaper offices, walked out again with armsful of symphonic phonograph records. The records cost them, not the usual $1.50 or $2 per disk, but about 50?. And they were good: staple works of Schubert, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, etc. But what orchestras performed them, what company recorded them, was not revealed on the label...