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...Reader Tuthill should listen to a more resourceful contrabassoonist. The lowest note on the standard contrabassoon is BBB flat (the fourth B flat below middle C) but a length or two of extra tubing will take it down to AAA, or even AAA flat...
Here's one on TIME (Oct. 23). You say the contrabassoon plays lower than the piano, while the reverse is true. The lowest note on the contrabassoon is BBB flat; the lowest note on every piano is AAA, a half step lower...
Among politicians the choice was popular; the top radio trade journals (Broadcasting, Radio Daily) praised the appointment. Kentuckian Porter, a tall (6 ft. 4 In.), convivial ex-newsman (Lexington Herald) is an able lawyer and a seasoned bureaucrat (AAA, OPA, WFA, OES). Friend of Henry Wallace, Leon Henderson and General "Ike" Eisenhower, he has been an ardent New Dealer since 1933. Having learned the ins & outs of radio during five years (1937-42) as Washington lawyer-lobbyist for CBS, he could probably earn far more outside of Government than the FCChairman's $10,000 salary...
Sometimes the Derby has been almost bashed in. Once Cobb found himself $196,000 in the red with $2,400 on hand. He haggled all one night with creditors, got 17 moratorium agreements. Now he says his credit rating is AAA, unlimited...
...acres planted to cotton, the Agriculture Department announced last week. Next day the War Food Administration prepared to relax its hold on cotton sales, left farmers free to sell all they could harvest. No longer must planters pay an 8?-a-lb. penalty for all sales above their AAA marketing quotas...