Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfect democracy, free from bosses, string-pulling and finagling at the polls, Harry Truman would probably never have reached Washington. He was Tom Pendergast's hand-picked candidate, yanked out of obscurity so deep that few Missouri voters had ever heard of him. He was nominated, over two more deserving candidates, largely by a vast plurality rolled up in Boss Pendergast's Jackson County, whose registration lists were loaded with dead men and men who had never lived. Thanks to the Boss's great power and the New Deal's 1934 popularity, his election was then...
...Salmaggi also likes to brag that 24 of his singers have later landed at the Metropolitan. When plump Contralto Bruna Castagna made her U.S. debut with Salmaggi at Manhattan's Hippodrome a few years ago, first-string critics acclaimed her as the foremost Carmen of her generation and the Met snapped...
Milstein has only one eccentricity: a method of remembering telephone numbers. He thinks of the digits from one to nine as positions on the G string of his Stradivarius, thus translates each combination of numbers into a melody. Then he has only to remember the exchange-and the melodv...
Shostakovich: Quartet, Op. 49 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 4 sides). Like Shostakovich's 8th Symphony, written at about the same date, this quartet bristles with crackling rhythms and ingratiating tunes...
...thing is certain: New Jersey Zinc's plants in its home State, Pennsylvania, and the West are all-out for war. Biggest wartime zinc need is for millions of shell cases, which the U.S. specifies must be 30% high-grade zinc, 70% copper. Then comes a string of zinc alloy castings for trucks and aircraft (fuel pumps, carburetors, door handles, etc.), die-cast gun sights, shell fuses and fire pumps, galvanized ship plates, sanitary equipment and plain tin roofs. Atop this are zinc oxide for paint, tires and medical supplies, "spiegeleisen" (mirror iron) for steel furnace purification, zinc dust...