Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost 6,000 light (13-ton) and medium (30-ton) tanks, 1,750 scout cars, 350 combat cars, fleets of trucks, Bill Knudsen has doled out $306,411,280 worth of contracts. Chrysler is building a $20,000,000 plant which should be pouring out mediums within a year. American Car & Foundry's pre-defense light-tank assembly line is rolling out five a day, and Baldwin Locomotive is experimenting with some horrendous 50-tonners which some day will come crunching down its assembly line...
With a larger stable than Decca's to look after, Columbia's Scout Satherly gets around more, operates on a more intense and personal basis. Once, says he, he closed a deal with the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet (Negro) by producing four gaudy scarves and neckties at a strategic moment. Some of his talent, like Blues Singers Bukka White and Buddy Moss, periodically land in jail, where Mr. Satherly does not care to make recordings. Popular Blind Boy Fuller, a lazy, not too bright North Carolina Negro, has been totally blind for 14 of his 32 years, totes...
...Walker and Gene Sullivan; many & many another. On these lists, collectors of Americana might find some rewarding items; jazz addicts would be overpowered by the prevailing corny fla vor. But Decca and Columbia would no more scrap their hillbilly catalogues than they would Bing Crosby and Benny Good man. Scout Kapp used to spend a month on a recording trip. Now, with ten trunks full of recording equipment, he camps in a city hotel for ten days, and the musicians come from miles away to play for him. Bandsmen, who must join the musicians' union, get the standard minimum...
...reviewing stand trotted the Sixth Cavalry's first squadron (cavalry-talk for battalion): 424 horses carrying troopers armed with Garand rifles and automatic pistols, 48 pack horses loaded with machine and anti-tank guns. After them in a cloud of blue smoke snorted the second squadron: 68 armored scout cars, no motorcycles, trucks, rolling kitchens, ambulances. Spectators found the motor squadron old stuff. More interested in the horse squadron, they watched it trot up to 58 truck-trailer combinations, unsaddle, walk its mounts up inclined tail gates, tie them inside. Within 10½ minutes horses were loaded eight...
...spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next day Sir Andrew encountered the Italians, who had ventured out with two of their six battleships, the fast but thin-skinned Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour, together with some heavy (10,000-ton) cruisers and usual destroyer...