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The mandolin lost popularity during the War. For a time stringed instruments yielded to brass and reed, chiefly the saxophone. Then touring Hawaiians brought in the cheap, easily played ukulele, the steel guitar with its throbbing, swooping tone which home musicians thought glamorous. By 1928 radio had cut into the...
From the Blue Eagle's death last May to the peak of the autumn upswing, the Annalist index of business activity' rose from 79.3 to 94.8, highest point since the spring of 1930. In the first two months of this year the Annalist index lost about 40% of...
Last week Newport Industries, Inc., one of the two principal U. S. companies producing naval stores, reported earnings of $295,117 for 1935, as against $161,619 the year before. This indicated no 1935 boom in the sales of ships' logs, rigging or hardtack but the gradual upswing of...
When the Houses were first instituted the meal rate was $10, the index number for food prices, well over 100. When the index dropped to 89.7 in 1933 the meal rate dropped correspondingly to $8.50. With the food index this year at 123.9 it is only natural that the dining...
Meantime in Chicago that same day an oldster from the other branch of the Service was reviving a part of its past which the Army would like to forget. In 1897 Captain Oberlin Montgomery Carter of the Corps of Engineers was on the upswing of what promised to be an...