Word: tilling
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...handful of music critics, Victor last week sent samples of the first non-breakable records ever made for home use -an album of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (played by Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony) on transparent, ruby-red plastic discs. They were the shape and size of Victor's familiar twelve-inch Red Seals, but engineers promised that they would exceed the shellac Red Seals' normal life expectancy of some 1,000 playings. The samples seemed to have more fidelity and less surface noise than ordinary records...
...jumps ahead of its competitors, Victor fondly believed that its vinyl resin plastics were the biggest thing in records since Soprano Emma Albani first cut Angels Ever Bright and Fair in 1903. But Victor is going slow. Till Eulenspiegel will be released Oct. 15, and it will be followed by only as many plastic albums as the public demands...
...Newspaper Guild promptly cried "lockout," voted to go on strike themselves, stay out till they got their back...
...rated Woodrow Wilson the greatest man of his day had to wait 25 years for most of America to find it out. . . . Mr. Barringer had better wait till those of us who were contemporaneous with Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and "F.D.R." have passed on and world historians have given Franklin Delano Roosevelt his niche in history. Maybe then some Americans will have learned to rate him fairly...
...also induced Lord Rothermere to tilt his nose a little more toward the grindstone. After his father's death in 1940 he began showing up at Northcliffe House at 10 in the morning, stayed till after 6 at night. The policy of the Daily Mail, which had been friendly to fascism in his father's time, supported the anti-fascist war, at times seemed hostile to the U.S., wobbled along apparently undecided whether to go right or left...