Word: turne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar shortage of goods, the fact is that the overpriced pound was not a disadvantage. Buyers wanted the goods badly enough to buy, no matter what the price tags said. Now, however, world production is catching up with demand. Sellers have to compete because buyers turn away from the high price tags...
...domestic price level has been falling since last September. That means that a dollar buys more than it did last year. This, in turn, means that a pound buys still less, relative to $4.03, than it did a year ago. In other words, any British price tag, unchanged for a year, is now really higher because the dollars needed to buy the pounds to buy the article are worth more than they were before...
Then energetic Conductor Norman Del Mar bounced into the tiny pit for some rehearsing. Explaining how to count time and watch his baton for cues, he put the audience through four songs, three to be sung in turn before the opera's three scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...
...folding left the scientific field dominated by money-making Popular Science (circ. 1,170,000) and Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,035,000), which turn out easily understood science news for their educated laymen, gadgets and shop hints for the young and the mechanically minded. But Science Illustrated's readers were more likely to shift to the recently revivified, upper-middlebrow Scientific American (circ...
...pulled a shoulder muscle in spring training at Tucson, while demonstrating Cleveland's pickoff play for photographers, and the arm stayed weak. Complete rest might have been the soundest treatment, but the Indians were loth to shelve their high-priced star; Right-Hander Feller took his pitching turn-and his lumps-without complaint...