Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Absorbing the Cost. Coral executives actually heard Hula Hoop 24 hours before Roulette did, but they lost valuable time by assigning it at first to a new female vocal group. Then the word got around that Roulette was recording Hula with Songstress Georgia Gibbs, and Coral executives decided that "we would have to come up with a big name, too." Their choice: Songstress Teresa Brewer. In the mad scramble that followed, Georgia beat Teresa into the record shops by one day, was further aided by the fact that she was able to sing the song on The Ed Sullivan Show...
...Imperial Records actually brought out the first hoop disk (Hula Hoop) on the West Coast last June, but the craze had not yet reached its shimmying climax, and the record failed to take...
...greatest depository of religious and secular manuscripts and manuscript art is the Vatican Library in Rome; its archives of some 566,000 books and documents, dating from as far back as 2,000 B.C., form an irreplaceable record. But if the library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works...
...manuscript research previously possible only at the Vatican. To make sure that the film stands as good a chance of survival as the originals, the negatives will be kept in a special fireproof, burglarproof vault, under strict temperature and humidity controls. That the film will never become the sole record of the Vatican's great treasures is the prayer of the Jesuit fathers...
...historic week for Wall Streeters. Led by such blue chips as U.S. Steel and Standard Oil (N.J.), the Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 520 level that has been a barrier three times before, climbed to an alltime record high of 526.57 before settling back to 526.43. What gave the market its record-breaking push was the same combination of improving business news, institutional buying and fear of inflation that has sent it on one of the steepest climbs in history...