Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he was allowed to use for this purpose was his Business Advisory & Planning Council, chairmanned first by Franklin Roosevelt's friend Gerard Swope of General Electric, later by Uncle Dan's friend Samuel Clay Williams of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. There is nothing in the record to show that the BA & PC and Uncle Dan ever really altered Franklin Roosevelt's attitude toward Business, but several times it revived that sufferer's failing heart with short waves of Confidence...
...monthly average of industrial production was no in 1937 and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about 104. . . . National income seems likely to make a new high record for the recovery period, and to be a little above the level of 1937. . . . Average freight loadings may advance about 15%. . . . Automobile output in 1939 should be between 30 and 50% larger than that of 1938*. . . . Wholesale prices will probably advance slowly. . . . It seems probable that the average price of all stocks listed on the New York Stock...
Huge Radio Corp. of America not only makes music on the air through National Broadcasting Co. but also sells its patrons radio sets, tubes, phonographs, records. NBC's thriving rival, Columbia Broadcasting System, until last week had no such manufacturing interests. Then its debonair young President William S. Paley announced that CBS had purchased American Record Corp., was thus "broadening the base of its service along natural lines...
That CBS was out to rival RCA in every way, young Mr. Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...
League "C" is paced by Lowell with a record of 15 victories and five defeats. Second comes Dunster with 12 and eight, and third Adams, Leverett, and Winthrop with 11 and nine...