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...employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as if he was their mother or father or sister or brother." All day every day, customers are entertained not only by the organ but by a 23-tube radio phonograph, playing in subdued tones requests ranging from Toscanini to Whiteman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Toscanini to Whiteman | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew nothing about the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Rescue Operation | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Biding his time, he is working on another application of his system, an invasion of the phonograph field. Capable of a wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miller's Way | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...annually attract a greater under of students than the German Department, nothing comparable to the Germanic Museum exists. A student interested merely in French civilization must visit five buildings: French art is displayed at Fogg, French music is available in Paine Hall, French literature high up in Widener, French phonograph records at the Union, and French movies at the Geographical Institute. Nowhere is there a permanent exhibit of French photographs, maps, sketches, statues, or paintings; nor is there any logical center for French extra-curricular lectures, or for the now moribund French Club. These basic defects--decentralization and inadequacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMANCE IN THE RAIN | 3/10/1939 | See Source »

Here may be seen what is probably the worlds best phonograph, incorporating refinements developed by Harvard engineers to minimize record-wear and give sound reproduction into the highest frequencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Society to Exhibit New Equipment and Methods Tomorrow | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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