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Word: recording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest has already received enough publicity so that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are sending their news cameramen to snap the listeners in action. There was also a possibility late last night that Fox Movie-tone would be on hand to record on a synchronized score the voices of the men and the music, as the phonographs grind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Banner Waved in Holyoke Street to Start Students' Phonograph Listening Marathon--Helen Kane May Officiate | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

Last week U. S. motorists blinked eyes in astonishment; U. S. motor car makers held heads proudly high. Astonishment and pride alike resulted from a perusal of automobile production figures for the first quarter of 1929. For these statistics showed that speeding 1929 was leaving record-breaking 1928 far behind. They demonstrated a percentage increase worthy even of an infant industry; a volume increase that should materially contribute to the development of the U. S. citizen into a creature with two arms and four wheels. Having produced more than 1,000,000 cars in the first three months of record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Amazing Autos | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...because of prevailing U. S. prosperity. Production of 1,500,000 cars in the first three months of 1929 of course does not mean that the year will reach a 6,000,000 total, but that it should pass the 5,000,000 mark is a conservative estimate. Previous record (1928) was 4,635,000. There are seven or eight million Model T Fords to be replaced, some millions of 4-cylinder Chevrolets that have become antiquated by the Chevrolet shift from a Four to a Six, and four million 1923 models of all makes that have rounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Amazing Autos | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

General Motors. In addition to its Chevrolet output, General Motors (which in 1928 produced about 39% of all U. S. cars) also kept its other companies running at record-breaking figures. Cadillac and La Salle March production totaled 4,009; the Olds Motor Works turned out 13,000 Oldsmobiles (44% increase over March, 1928); Buick reached a March figure of 15,206.* Production has also been started on a new General Motors car -the Viking. Made at the Oldsmobile Lansing plant, the Viking is an 8-cylinder car with a V-type motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Amazing Autos | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Others. Graham-Paige almost doubled its first quarter 1928 output, producing more than 25,000 Graham-Paiges during first three months of 1929. Nash beat March, 1928 by 44%, Franklin by 140% (1,566 units). March saw the millionth Oakland roll down the runway. Marmon had a record-breaking March, featured by its new Roosevelt (8 cylinders, less than $1,000). President A. R. Erskine of Studebaker told stockholders of $4,500,000 earnings, in best first quarter for five years. Continental Motors Corp. (engines) showed sales increases, exclusive of sales to Ford, of 18% over first quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Amazing Autos | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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