Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pullman, No. 1 streamline-builder, today has about 1,000 lightweight cars on the rails (Budd 300). As its basic material Pullman alternates between aluminum alloy, which has about the same strength as stainless, and Cor-Ten, U. S. Steel's patented alloy. Cor-Ten's elastic strength is only about twice carbon steel's, and Cor-Ten cars are heavier than stainless or aluminum, but Pullman's steel cost is much lower than Budd's. Cor-Ten cars are spot-welded, but since aluminum cannot be structurally welded, Pullman does a sleek riveting...
Last week Benny had a record released on Columbia that seems to me to be one of the few real swing records he has ever made, in the sense that it has the teady, easy push that made Basic famous. The first half of the record is really colossal before Ziggy Elman ruins the groove by one of the most idealess solos I have ever heard...
...York, Mike Niedorf, claims that this is bunk, that if and when Shaw forms a new band he will be delivered otherwise not . . . Columbia expects to release soon a piano album of eight sides with one side apiece by Jesse Stacy, Clarence Profit, Mary Lon Williams, Count Basic, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Johnson, and others. This reviewer heard several test pressings and if all the rest are as good the album will be really colossal. . . . Raymond Scott has been doing very well with a little ditty entitled "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," swiped from one of the earlier efforts...