Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Osaka and Kobe to Tokyo, up & down the Ginza (Tokyo's Broadway) and through the Shinjuku (Tokyo's Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...
...Convent. Each day follows much the same pattern. Chapel is held at 8 a.m. Breakfast follows. Then campers have two hours of a capella singing (usually including a Bach chorale or two) under Father Wasner. After lunch, Father Wasner gives a lecture on musical history, and directs a pickup orchestra and the singers through 16th-18th Century choral works...
...nearest thing to a conductor's worry was the orchestra. In past years, Jones had had the well-drilled Philadelphia Orchestra in front of him; this time, with the Philadelphia on its first tour of Britain, he had first-class musicians, but it was still a pickup band. Even so, with the last quiet but magnificent "Slumber now, and take thy rest," one listener, a Baltimore lawyer who has been trekking to Bethlehem for 20 years, said appreciatively: "A good Friday; but you know, what we come for is the Saturday...
Nobody expected a pickup soon. In spite of the Ford strike, new cars were rolling out of Detroit at a rate of more than 5,000,000 a year. Some new car dealers were feeling a sag in their own sales (Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week reported a $5.8 million loss in the first quarter). They were once more offering bigger trade-in allowances than they could get for the used cars. By summer's end, some of 1949's new cars would be showing up on used-car lots, to add to the glut. Both...
...Quick Pickup. In high dudgeon, the American Automobile Association last week asked major U.S. oil companies why, with oil in surplus, had the price of gasoline gone up just as motorists were getting ready for summer driving? While other oil companies mulled over an answer, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. cut prices if a gallon in Kansas City, the first sizable cut in gasoline prices since...