Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ATLANTA, Ga., April 17--Despite goldfish swallowing and phonograph-record eating activities, the college student of today is more serious than the undergraduate of pre-war days, President Conant observed today...
...314s were in service this week, two on the Pacific run, the third on the New York-Bermuda route, operated by Pan-Am alone since the crash of Imperial Airways' Cavalier (TIME, Jan. 30). The Easter rush of Bermuda vacationers set an airline record: the Bermuda Clipper carried 60 passengers on each of three north-bound trips...
...kept his Monocoupe on top of an overcast most of the way, kept himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight for my own satisfaction...
...Pump Room Orchestra (now conducted by handsome Maurice Miles) has given concerts in Bath's Pump Room for 234 uninterrupted years. Last week word leaked out that the famous Pump Room Orchestra was to be disbanded. Reason: for its size, Bath's orchestra had set a new record in box-office flops. This year's expected deficit...
...Civil Liberties the session went on record as approving the LaFollette Committee's work and strongly protesting the Dies Committee's investigation of "Un-American Activities." It also censured poll taxes and other means used to prevent racial minorities from voting...