Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in the sorry wheat market, flour millers decided to cover their future needs, ,hereby rallying the price from 71? to 76?. The never bashful packers raised their prices on dressed meats as the pickup in trade activity reached them...
...dealings of Adman Maxon and his new client occurred 25 years ago. At that time young Maxon was proprietor of a lunch wagon outside the Ford plant in Highland Park. One of his best pint-of-milk customers was Henry Ford. After a try at pro football with a pickup team of former Carlisle Indians, Maxon spent a year as advertising manager of Detroit's R. H. Fyfe & Co. ("America's Largest Shoe Store"), then became assistant city editor of the old Detroit Journal. He was fired for palming off a phony story on the city editor...
...Philco's extremely light pickup, a rounded sapphire point almost floats in the record groove, transmits the groove's vibrations to a tiny mirror mounted above it. The mirror, jiggling imperceptibly, picks up a beam from a pea-sized bulb, which it transmits to a photoelectric cell. The cell converts the light waves into the same sort of electric impulses transmitted by an ordinary pickup. Philco claims that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal...
...Modern Museum concerts, Carlos Chavez aimed to capsule Mexico's Indo-Spanish music in a 90-minute program. He trained a pickup, 23 piece Manhattan orchestra, reinforced with a few Mexican guitarists and including five men to bang the tablefuls of kitchenware in the percussion section. Conductor Chavez, with a precise, clean beat and an extraordinarily contented look, led off with three concerts last week, then turned the orchestra over to his assistant, Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, who will lead the same program twice daily until...
William W. Tyng '41, ex-officio chairman, stated that the Network could have begun operations tonight but that it was decided to wait until Wednesday when installation of new equipment will be completed. Studio officials have bought two new phonograph turntables and pickup arms to give uniform reception on record broadcasts...