Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...load" the song was delivering, were responsible for a change in the lyrics from "There's another big load" to "There's another dirt load." Within two months of this Nice-Nellyism, the song's sale rose to 50,000 copies. Ethel Merman's Victor recording sold 80,000 discs and kept on going. The U.S. Army morale division ordered 25,000 copies. By last week, members of the U.S. Army themselves had flooded Bandleader Lopez' mail with more than 600 uninhibited versions of the ditty...
...with as much all-round mastery of the piano as any man can show. And it brings him a steady income of over $100,000 a year. He is also one of the recording industry's biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly rolled up a sale of an estimated...
...Victor Reuther of C.I.O.: "I don't think the manpower recommendation from Washington was justified. We can step up production by increasing our use of manpower...
...emphasize Victor Reuther's opinion, his brother, Walter Reuther, has come forward with a plan for establishing "full employment" for Detroit and all war industries. Claiming that absenteeism and labor discontent are largely due to the fact that many men are asked to work only in spurts, Walter Reuther proposes drastic remedies: 1) establishment of regulations that all war plants must provide 40-hr.-week employment now, and later a 48-hr, week, with full payment for overtime; 2) a national wage policy which will guarantee to all war plant employes who work less than 40 hours per week...
...hair-thin plot concerns the efforts of Betty Hutton, a telephone operator at Paramount, to keep sailor Eddie Bracken from knowing that his father, Victor Moore, is not the studio's head, but its gateman. This indirectly involves such sequences as when the Golden Gate Quartet steals the "Dreamland" number from Mary Martin and Dick Powell, a hilarious ride in a jeep, and a "Swing Shift" number with luscious brown Donna Drake swinging it in a good deal less than a shift...