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Since its debut on Oct. 7, 1934, the Ford Hour has had an average seasonal run of 33 performances, an average seasonal cost of $1,400,000 in time and talent. It has presented the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of nearly every good conductor, with guest stars of all magnitudes...
Soprano Djanel's Carmen was backed up as expertly as a debutante could wish: in the pit was Guest Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who has been pulling opera performances together for 40 years. (He has been known to conduct from memory with no more preparation than a last-minute query: "What's the opera to night...
...Iturbi, 46, pianist-conductor, private pilot, enlisted in OCD's Civil Air Patrol, to help do ferrying work, eagle-eye the coast. Spanish-born Iturbi took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last August...
...skin effect. Induction's alternating current, unlike DC, concentrates on the surface of the conductor. Hence the outside of a metal object heats up rapidly while the inside stays cool. Given a skin-blistering dose of high-frequency induction current and then quenched in water, metals are hardened on the surface, yet remain resilient and tough inside. Typical parts thus hardened are airplane bearings, tank treads, engine cylinder walls. Often they last ten times longer than without such surface hardening. Noses of armor-piercing shells and bombs are induction-hardened without affecting the rest of the projectile. Among other...
...Defense Savings Department awed her. Said she: "We are in the process of organizing and we are simply going to sell millions of bonds when we get started. I'm sure you realize that even the upper classes cannot do all of the work. A streetcar conductor's wife is sometimes as smart as a woman of my position. . . . Everybody will have a part in helping me with this tremendous...