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...rehearsal was over; the guest conductor stepped down from the podium. Said Maestro Toscanini, who had been sitting quietly in a back seat scrutinizing the score: "Now! That man really knows how to play that music ... I play it like a pig!" The little knot of courtiers around Toscanini hastened to assure him that it wasn't so. The old man turned on them with one of his sudden, unpredictable thunderclaps: "Oh, so you think I don't know music?" As he marched off he sputtered: "The trouble with all of you is-you have all been poisoned...
...witnesses, began with International Detrola Corp., which needed steel for its radios and phonographs. To get a supply, Detrola, in August 1946, bought the Newport Rolling Mill at Newport, Ky. But Detrola's President C. Russell Feldman soon found that he still had a problem : he had no pig iron to make his steel. So, he told the committee, he made a deal with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati's David J. Joseph...
...Wilmington, N.C., 15 Liberty ships, loaded with food and fuel for Italy, remained tied up at the docks. No coal. Around the country, open hearth furnaces began to shut down. Production of pig iron, the raw material of industry, gradually declined. Washington extended its 25% cut in coal-burning passenger locomotives to the country's coal-burning freight engines. Some 400,000 soft-coal miners had already lost $60 million in wages. At week's end the coal strike was in its 14th...
...event, the nutria will be a welcome immigrant. Unlike many furbearers, most of which (e.g., skunks) are carnivorous, its flesh is pink and good to eat. A carcass prepared for cooking weighs about eight pounds. Some compare it to rabbit. When roasted, say other connoisseurs, it is like suckling pig...
TIME was trying to prove in pictures as well as words that important, "pig iron" news could be made graphic. A year later TIME ran two pages from a Fox Movietone reel of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. Out of these experiments grew the idea of LIFE...