Word: american
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's Journal, with his usual salutary skepticism, editorialized: "With little if any apparent warrant, it is again announced, for at least the tenth time in five years, that the causative organism of influenza has been discovered and that it is hoped to prepare a vaccine. There is thus far little or no evidence in scientific medical literature, or even in spoken addresses, to indicate that I. S. Falk, Ph.D., and his associates have progressed any further toward the solution of this problem than have workers in other parts...
Throughout the U. S. last week, many a musical citizen trilled on the keyboards of a Chickering, of a Knabe, of a Mason & Hamlin piano, all products of American Piano Co. factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch, Bauer, Ravel endorse Mason & Hamlin. The Chickering advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano...
...that did not prevent the American Piano Co. last week from suffering a sudden glissando into the hands of receivers (Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., appointed by Judge Alfred C. Coxe). The petitioners were W. D. Byrnes, Inc., a Manhattan trucking concern, who in presenting a bill for $7,000, declared that the company's property was valued at $3,689,000. that its current and unpaid liabilities were $1,200,000, that its property assets could not be immediately realized without great sacrifice...
...American Piano (chartered in 1908) had a long and successful business career until 19-27, when common dividends were first passed. In 1928 the last preferred dividends were paid and the year ending March 31, 1929, showed a deficit of $235,235. Last July President George Urquhart reported that "decline in demand for pianos which started in 1927 continued through 1928, and in the present year to date...
Long has it been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their...