Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evil in Purple. What a sell-out audience saw when the curtain finally went up on Salome last week, they would not soon forget. From the pit (which Reiner had ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive...
...Deal. Out went Air-Frame Builder Burdette S. Wright and Engine Builder William D. Kennedy, both Curtiss-Wright vice presidents of long standing. In came a high-powered slate of directors. Among them...
While U.S. production dropped, the U.S. displaced Great Britain as the world's biggest wool user. Consumption went up from 600 million Ibs. a year to about 1 billion Ibs. Most of this was in the finer wools. Russia, never a big buyer before the war, had also entered the market in a big way and did not seem to give a hang about the price...
...price of wool kept going up & up. At Australian auctions a fortnight ago, fine wool which had sold in 1946 for around 65? a Ib. brought a record price of $2.42¼. Last week, at the Newcastle auctions, it shot up to $2.76¼, and in Tasmania superfine wool went up to $3.53. Reason: a complete change in the world wool supply...
Although only the second and fifth of King Henry's wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...