Word: upturn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring talk in the business world is talk of better business. Last week spring talk was of firming stock and commodity prices, of imminent upturn. But spring statistics had yet to measure up to the spring feelings of business. Although February production was figured at 109 on the Federal Reserve Board index (down 19 points from December's all-time high), most visible signs still indicated that consumption and exports were not big enough to keep inventories from growing...
Records take a sharp upturn this week, and are much more interesting than they have been in a long while. Leading the list is Earl Hines' "Rosetta," a piano solo cut a few weeks ago on Bluebird with "Glad Rag Doll" on the other side, a solo that he made for Victor in 1929. As far as I am concerned, this disc settles once and for all who plays the most piano. Up until about two years ago, I' still thought that the "Father" was the top of them all, but after that he didn't do any recording...