Word: pianola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most magniloquently named organizations on earth, Imperial Industrial Corp., was rolling steadily forward last week. Imperial Industrial Corp. belches no great plume of smoke over the industrial landscape; it is, simply, all that is left of the U.S. pianola roll business. But Imperial is a complete monopoly and it is enjoying a small boom, largely produced by A.F. of M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on phonograph recording (TIME, June...
...copy comes off the machine here in New York. At the other end of the lines the printers get typewritten copies too-but they also get a narrow punched tape that they feed into an attachment that controls the typesetting keys in almost exactly the same way that a pianola record controls the keys of a piano. It sounds simple-but the Teletypesetter Company tells me no one has ever counted the number of parts in each sending machine-and that the reproducing attachments are equally complicated...