Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand feet above Chicago, Jack Cope stepped out the cabin door of his airplane, counted 28 before he pulled the parachute cord, landed buoyantly among a golf foursome. In the 13½ seconds before the parachute opened he had fallen 3,400 feet, a new sheer drop record...
Sergeant Boes, army flier, once descended 2,200 feet before pulling the cord. Dropper Cope modestly attributed his record to confusion. He had intended to count only...
...history of journalism in Montana would read like the history of ... the most ancient of professions. Its history of late years is a most sordid and ugly record of daily newspapers owned and controlled by The Big Company and prostituted to its dirty work of controlling public opinion. These are the scarlet creatures of Montana journalism. The circulation and advertising of the Butte Miner have increased surprisingly since it announced its independence and appealed to the people to make a stand against further inroads on their rights...
...virtuosity. Each will certainly receive rich fees. The movies can afford to pay. A single picture house, the Roxy Theatre, in Manhattan, rarely receives less than $110,000 a week from admissions. Its income for four weeks of Street Angel (with Movietone) was $479,000. That, however, was a record...
Author Warshow's book is a faithful ledger of the men and properties Jay Gould bought, and those he sold. It achieves a triumphant balance. It is a record of almost unbroken success. A vast speculator, Jay Gould consistently preserved and increased his fortune, died the richest man of his time. Even a measure of happiness was not denied him. From his last sickbed he could look out at his beloved orchids (8,000) and azaleas (2,000). A devoted family watched over him. And if his stocks soared in relief when his sinister influence finally passed from Wall...