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...flung musical notes last week were piping a merry jingle of dollars into the Manhattan headquarters of Muzak Corp., which grossed $5,000000 in 1949 by providing "wired music" to 10,000 customers in 150 cities, not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico. Last week Muzak, which now pipes its music over telephone wires, was tuning up a new project. It was starting large-scale production of tape recordings so that it could put music into air planes and other places with no phone connections...
...reported . . . there is a surplus of jobless Puerto Ricans in New York. So we proceed to fly several thousand more from Puerto Rico to Michigan, to harvest the sugar-beet crop for sugar which might better have been made from Puerto Rican cane in the first place...
...Mexican-Americans from Texas were not enough to work the 140,000 acres. Last week, as the result of a bargain between Michigan farmers and the Puerto Rican government, help came out of the clouds. Nine times daily, four-engine transports picked up full loads of workers in Puerto Rico (a total of 5,050), ten hours later deposited them in the Saginaw Valley to work in the fields at $7 to $8 a day. The crop was saved by the largest non-military airlift in history...
...Regents did not issue a list of "subversive" groups although it summoned five organizations--the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the International Workers of the World, and the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico--to a hearing...
Frankfurter's third favorite was Naples-born Rico Lebrun, who first made a hit in the U.S. with slick fashion drawings and illustrations. "But with the beginning of the last war," Frankfurter says, "first his subject matter and then his art started to reveal his real profundity. About five years ago, he began work on sketches for a great Crucifixion that has since assumed a quite different evolution. The monumental picture probably never will be painted, but the specific moments of the great symbol of suffering and regeneration are becoming individual pictures...