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There was little music. For spaces of half an hour at a time there was only the scuffing cadence of polished boots, the applause, the window-rattling thunder of newly painted Sherman tanks, of 45-ton self-propelled 8-inch howitzers, of Long Toms, jeeps and ambulances...
There was much eloquent plainness, sincerity and humility in the speech. He did not thunder and roar; he heaped no scorn. When he criticized, he showed moderation. "I have indicated my opposition ... to the antilabor bills pending in Congress," was the way he put it. When he described how General Motors walked out on his fact-finding board, he said only: "You have seen how General Motors has refused to cooperate...
Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...
When Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
...just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...