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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band at the Copley Plaza last fall, he plans to stay in Boston and join Charlie Vinal's band at the Copley Square (provided that the sponsors' bankrolls haven't been depleted!) on the strength of his belief that playing jazz a couple of nights a week for union scale and taking a day job for the rest is better than making $120 a week with a sickening hotel orchestra. That, my friends, is devotion to an ideal...
...little piece for your Sunday dinner, it costs about 15?, and I tell you it is no bigger than this little ball (he held up a small flash bulb). Fifteen cents or maybe 20, whatever the butcher charges. That is what you get when he puts it on the scale and that is the conditions in our department, gentlemen...
Reading aerial pictures requires even more skill than shooting them. The best interpreters can identify new types of aircraft on the ground, and name enemy ships, from a photograph with a scale of one to 10,000. They can often read bomb damage accurately from pictures taken six miles up. In Sicily, the Army found the photogrammetrists' interpretations 100% accurate...
Mexican Hayride (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Michael Todd) is a $225,000 tropical splurge. Better musicomedies have been swung on far less money, but Mexican Hayride is a smooth formula job - large-scale and lavish, with good dancing, fair tunes, pleasant people and plenty of Bobby Clark...
Larger Pumps. That is exactly what Morse's group did, by reducing air pressure to a rarity hitherto unattainable on an industrial scale. To do this, they had to maintain a high vacuum of less than 1 mm. air pressure inside the huge tanks and pipes where materials were to be treated. Mechanical pumps (which work not by sucking but by sweeping air out of a vessel) are not very effective at pressures below...