Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stranger to 20 of the Berlin Philharmonic's older musicians; he had been the first foreigner to conduct them after World War...
...wage pattern for all industry. The C.I.O. autoworkers, already set to strike against Ford for similar demands, are dragging their feet. So are John L. Lewis' mineworkers, whose contract has expired. All told, more than 1,500,000 unionists are watching to see if it is peace or war...
...record war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records, Inc., both sides have hotly wooed Decca Records, Inc. as a prospective ally. But Decca, third largest U.S. recordmaker, has played hard to get, shrewdly watching & waiting to see whether RCA's 45 r.p.m. or Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record would win the battle on retail counters. Last week, convinced that it was getting in on "the biggest possible market," Decca lined up with Columbia. With 15 smaller recorders already making 33⅓ r.p.m. LP records, Decca's decision meant that Columbia had just about...
Wellesley Wellington Vandeveer, onetime member of the Petroleum Administration for War and present delegate to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, was a cofounder of Allied Oil Co. 24 years ago. He and Partner Floyd Roy Newman started with $30,000 capital, most of which was borrowed. They fought off slashing competition, plowed back their profits and finally built the company into a $50 million-a-year business. Last year they sold out to Ashland Oil & Refining Co. for $12 million worth of the larger company's stock...
Died. John William Dunne, 73, air pioneer who designed and built Great Britain's first military airplane (secretly tested by the War Office in 1907-08 and scrapped); in Banbury, England...