Word: soundproofing
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Last week six high-speed stenographers locked in a soundproof room of the offices of Australia's Sydney Telegraph scribbled furiously in relays. With earphones on his head and a radio-borne voice from the Telegraph's Manhattan office pouring a torrent of words into his ears, each stenographer scribbled frantically for about 1,000 words, then dropped out to rest while another took his place. Thus in about three hours, through 8,000 miles of air, at a cost for the telephone bill of about ?400 ($1,300) a week, TIME'S entire Foreign News...
...inauguration of the President will be a rather dull one as far as music is concerned, because ASCAP has possession of all of Sousa's best marching songs. CBS and NBC are building soundproof broadcasting units along Pennsylvania Avenue in order to prevent any music from going out over the air. God Bless America, the new national anthem, will not be heard at all until this argument is settled...
...attended by a cheering crowd of somebody else's delegates; bands playing everywhere, always, and coming at delegates from all directions; 1,900 U. S. flags hoisted by the city of Philadelphia; a reading clerk, tuned up for the hurly-burly by practicing 30 minutes daily in a soundproof garage, reading Elaine's oration on Garfield; Boss Joe Pew saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie, Dewey, or Taft; Candidate Taft three hours late for his first press conference...
...fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl...
They occupy an air-conditioned basement wing with soundproof ceilings, glass brick partitions, a dark room, library, reception room with a co-ed receptionist...