Word: rca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Otis' biggest job was the $3 ½ million installation of 74 elevators in the Empire State Building. But Westinghouse Electric, Otis' chief competitor, claims the world's fastest elevators: Rockefeller Center's bank of eight, which travel between the first and 65th floors of the RCA Building at 1,400 feet per minute, make passengers' ears pop with the fast change in atmospheric pressure...
Brahms: A German Requiem (Eleanor Steber, soprano; James Pease, bass; the RCA Victor Chorale and Symphony, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 18 sides). Brahms avoided the traditional liturgy, chose his own excerpts from the Bible "because I am a musician and because I needed them." Finished eight years before his first symphony (and foreshadowing it), this was the first composition to win him wide fame. Its moments of beauty more than make up for its minutes of tedium. Performance: good...
...Before the U.S. could take a good look, the war interfered; the toy had to be put back in the closet for five years. When it was examined again, it had two heads: one (a CBS product) was gaudy with all the colors of the spectrum; the other (by RCA) was black & white. Since the industry could not go off in both directions, and still take the public along,* the Federal Communications Commission had to make a hard choice. In a momentous decision (TIME, March 31, 1947), the color process, at present impractical commercially, was sent back to the laboratory...
...million people saw the World Series on television, and the big, grid-shaped antennae began to appear on the rooftops of New York City houses and apartments. The Louis-Walcott fight in December was witnessed by more than a million people. On the Monday and Tuesday after the fight, RCA sold 2,400 telesets...
Apparently undisturbed at losing $1,700,000 on TV last year, NBC expects to lose $5,000,000 more before it turns a profit-about five years from now. NBC's parent company, RCA, squatting triumphantly atop the field, has made as many television sets as the other 46 manufacturers combined...