Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played almost every day for a month. Folklorist Lomax, co-author with his late father, John A. Lomax, of Folk Song U.S.A., etc., listened and recorded. What he heard (and later checked up on) adds up to more than mere reminiscent fodder for jazz fans. Mister Jelly Roll (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), published last week, is also the full-flavored story of a raucous, diamond-studded era of U.S. history, as seen and told by a mulatto genius who lived it from top to bottom...
...Mexico: W. A. Sloan '31; Box 558 Albuquerque...
...stock market was also cheered by the increasing optimism of U.S. industry. For example, General Motors Corp., which had been expecting a drop in auto sales this summer, now plans to boost its record output by almost 20%. Said Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. at last week's annual meeting of stockholders*: "Out of an estimated 34 million passenger cars now in operation, about n million or nearly one-third of the total, are ten years old or older." Most of these cars must be replaced over the next few years, said Sloan, and G.M., which has spent...
...When a stockholder suggested that G.M. send its executives around the U.S. for regional stockholders' meetings, Sloan retorted: "I rebel at having President Wilson and other officials travel around the country [when they are under such heavy pressure . . . I would rather have them play golf...
...that is the toot of a steamboat whistle. Somehow it is believed that if we can only have a steamboat whistle tooting through the heart of the corn belt there will be enormous riches . . ." He was attacking the feasibility of authorizing $250 million more for the celebrated Pick-Sloan development on the Missouri River. Said Fair Dealer Douglas: "I think it is a very serious question whether the United States of America needs a nine-foot channel from Sioux City to Kansas City...