Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session the Vice President told the President to "decide whether you're gonna get on or get off," and, "For God's sake, Mister President, have the baby...
...tried in France for refrigerated meats. The material was latex-pure natural rubber altered just enough to be workable. The trick sounded good to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass., which was already using latex to make low-cost balloons ($2.25) for high-altitude meteorological and cosmic ray observation. The company's researchers set to work devising a commercial method for wrapping poultry and meat in latex...
...Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch her last two measures and Herb Haymer's fragment at the end . . . Decca records, having lost Jimmy Lunceford, goes out and digs up a band by the name of Floyd Ray that not only plays like Lunceford, but shows possibilities of becoming much better . . . For drumming with all of Krupa's speed and flash but with taste and drive, listen to Cozy Cole on Callaway's "Ratamacue" (Vocalion) . . . Not swing, but still very funny is the Commodore release of "Private Jives...
...Louis Ach defeated Alee Early in the 121 pound class by a fall in 3 minutes and 22 seconds, won the 128 pound title by a decision over Jim Redman, and nabbed the 130 pound title by defeating Early a second time, by decision. In the 145 pound class Ray Stone threw Art Kincade in eight minutes and 34 seconds...
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...