Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mentioned, plus Hindemith's "Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet." When works of unquestionable fibre have been given, they have often been thrown, together indiscriminately, as witnessed by another program which boasted of nothing but modern French music by Milhaud, Debussy and Ravel, enough to tire even the most ardent admirer of musical delicacy and impressionism. To date there has not been a single note of Bach or Handel heard in Symphony Hall. Although there seemed to be time enough for two by Shostakovitch and one by Miaskovsky, there was not a single Haydn...
When the Japanese took Singapore and the Dutch East Indies they captured 90% of the world's supply of crude rubber. Americans felt the pinch in tire and gasoline rationing; the U.S. Army needed all the rubber that could be had and more besides, which was to be produced in many new synthetic-rubber plants. Malaya as a rubber source was written...
...opinion, delivered last week by two FCC commissioners, raised again an important question of public policy for radio. It was a by-product of the approval by FCC as a whole of the sale of New England's biggest radio chain, the 21-station Yankee Network, to General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron...
These concerns were not discussed by Yankee's new owner-president, big, genial, tough William O'Neil, General Tire president. Said he: "We are not going to disturb the network. . . . This is an investment. . . . This was a wonderful piece of business...
...Rubberman O'Neil seems content to let the Yankee Network alone while his company, now 90% devoted to war goods, works out its war contracts, his post-war radio plans are more active. He sees the network's 6,000,000 Yankee listeners as customers for General Tire in a boom to follow the war. Said he : "New England is a cross section of the best in America. It has everything-big cities, small cities, agricultural areas. . . . And New England people pay their bills-promptly. . . . We do hope to bring to the network some of the spirit...