Word: touring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gauge the public's reaction to the new models. Last week, for example, many a New Yorker got free tickets to the Manhattan show on the condition that he fill in a style ballot. Weaver will also muster some of his motor enthusiasts for a personally conducted tour of the show. This week, too. Weaver's biggest customer research opus makes its debut-a slick, 80-page Motorist's Handbook and Buyer's Guide to be distributed to 5,000,000 customers to tell them what they have told GM about their taste in automobiles...
...Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Czech Philharmonic, Georg Széll conducting; Victor: 10 sides). When Germany annexed the Sudeten area. Prague's Czech Philharmonic was disbanded, its members mobilized. But last week, anxious music-lovers learned that it had reassembled, would tour Great Britain. The least talked-about of the world's great orchestras, the demobilized Czechs had long been famous among record collectors for their matchless woodwinds and brasses. Of Czech Composer Dvořák's "New World" Symphony they give a matchless performance...
...Funk's tour was perfectly timed to exploit German kudos won at Munich, but last week he was careful to point out how broad an economic foundation had been laid years before the Czechoslovak crisis for the present German drive of economic empire-building down the Danube...
Most other big Nazis rant offensively, but not tiny, obese Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk, whom Germans call the "gentlest of all the Nazis." He returned quietly to Berlin last week from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending credits-i.e., economic bribes for political favors. And the day after he got back, Poland thankfully accepted a German credit of 60,000,000 marks and, according to reports, Greece was put down by the German Economics Ministry for a credit of 100,000,000 marks...
...operated in Vienna before the Anschluss, last week flashed: "German planned economics is in essence a form of socialist production and distribution. Up until the recent downfall of Czechoslovakia, the conventional capitalist system of production and distribution was never really seriously challenged outside of Russia. Completion of a successful tour of the Balkans by Dr. Walther Funk . . . signals not only the fact that Germany has finally won the World War, but also that she has delivered the most serious blow the capitalist economic system has received since...