Word: sheets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
President Grace made some other matters equally clear. He put cost savings on continuous mill production at $6 to $8 per ton of sheet and strip, added that Steel's hard-boiled Detroit customers have now chiseled every last cent of this profit out of the steel price, admitted that the sale of the balance of 1939 auto steel going at May's cut prices (TIME, May 22) was more a pious hope than the gloomy admission it sounded like...
...many other U. S. newspapers, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the San Francisco Chronicle and many a lesser sheet, have borrowed from TIME that the Transcript's new format was scarcely news. But news it is that Publisher Johnson has upped national advertising revenue by 50%, roped 24 new advertisers into long-term contracts...
...marriage Galeazzo was another of those golden lads who liked to hang around the Excelsior and Grand Hotels in Rome, where rich U. S. heiresses generally stayed. He had been a cub reporter and a society journalist who did bits of drama and literary criticism for an obscure Roman sheet. After that his father managed to get him minor posts in the consular and diplomatic service. Few people thought he displayed great ability except that languages came easy...
...built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal. If Paul Smith can put over the city's only home-owned newspaper as a liberal, world-conscious sheet, he may make...