Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada which had faced war last year with six destroyers, less than 300 military airplanes and an active militia of just over 4,000 men, had come a good piece. Minister of Munitions and Supply C. D. Howe told the House of Commons: "Canada's industrial tempo is at its highest peak in history." Airplane production, he said, was already at the rate of 1,300 a year and would reach 4,320 next year. Eleven types were already in production, and more on the drafting board. When plant equipment is completed, the country will produce 30 tanks...
...another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard from Dixleland (two-four) to four-four tempo--it's worth hearing...
More Goodman repressings: This time "You Know" by the Trio. First good clip tempo with "Flash" Krupa showing the folks back home he can play. Second side much better with ideas, swing, and Today Wilson piano galore . . . Freddy Slack claims that he'd arranged "Rhumboogie" and that the Bradley band was playing it long before the Andrews Sisters did it. At any rate their recording of it is a good one . . . "I've Got Rhythm" by Horace Henderson is marked "Special Version"--we like the original better. "Shuffin' Joe" on the back...
Behind the break-through tanks came assault tanks of six to ten tons, carrying light cannon and machine guns firing through ports guarded by revolving steel discs synchronized to the guns' tempo, each manned by one officer or non-com and one private. Of these, five made a squadron, three squadrons a company (plus the unit leader's car, radio car and reserve echelon), three companies a battalion, three battalions to a 135-tank regiment, plus reserves. Two regiments of breakthrough and two of assault tanks made a 400-tank armored division...
...patient voices droned on about the moribund League of Nations, international trade, U. S. responsibility. As the tempo quickened, and bombers roared over Ethiopia, Spain, China...