Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson record in politics dates from 1894, when he entered the Arkansas Legislature. He had just been graduated in law from the University of Virginia and had started practicing in his native shack town of Lonoke, Ark. In 1902 he "talked his way" into Congress, serving five terms in the House. In 1913, he resigned from Congress to be inaugurated as Governor of Arkansas. A fortnight later, Senator Jeff Davis* died and Governor Robinson was elected to replace...
Died. Alfred Fronvall, French aviator, who last February set a world record by looping his plane 1,100 times in 4 hrs. 56 min.; in a collision; at the Villa Coublay airdrome, Paris...
Profits. Hupp Motor Car Corp. declared an extra dividend and announced that its net profits for the first six months of 1928 would reach a new record of $4,000,000. The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (air-cooled motors) resumed dividends on common stock for the first time since...
While a person's actions are being recorded by the camera, his words (or songs) are caught by a microphone and sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind...
Down the side of Pike's Peak, Col., coming at a precipitous rate of speed, with an enormous roar, was seen last week a hairy and runtlike Negro. On reaching the bottom, 48 minutes after he had left the top, the Negro said that he had broken the record for coming down Pike's Peak and that his name was Dolphus Stroud...