Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge over the muddy Salzach River, where it twists through troubled Salzburg, a U.S. Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...
...censorship clamps. Last week, after V-E day, there were no particular shouts of. joy when some of the clamps were relaxed. Radio had patriotically toed the line and found, to its surprise, that listeners were not missing much. Now, for better or worse, the customers could again tune in: 1) full weather forecasts; 2) man-in-the-street interviews; 3) record request programs...
...profits: $446,091 v. $178.520 last year. United Air Lines was right on its tail; in the busiest first quarter in its history it netted $1,643,288 (v. last year's $1.110,083). American Airlines, likewise bragging of its heaviest traffic ever, cashed in to the tune of $980,643 (v. $597,796). For many another company, the explanation of the golden showing was entirely different. It was due less to any huge increase in volume than to the fact that most companies have stopped tucking away cash for reconversion, postwar expansion, etc.*They have already put away...
Secretary Stettinius last week let newsmen inspect the penthouse where he and his Big Power colleagues called the tune for the San Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...Same Old Tune. From Germany TIME Correspondent Percival Knauth cabled...