Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its own products are concerned, there will be no such radical changes. Said RCA Victor: "In our opinion, nothing now contemplated in the laboratories or in use commercially at present shows any signs of offering such flexibility, tonal fidelity and simplicity, at low cost, as do the conventional disc and phonograph...
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor; 8 sides). By the time the late great Sergei Rachmaninoff got around to his fourth concerto, his powers as a composer were on the wane, but his powers as a pianist kept their vigor. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...Ministry's rifle range on the boulevard Victor, the Germans had built an asbestos shed in which they threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...