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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Using the terms "All-Wave," "World-Wave," "World-Wide-Wave," to describe sets "not constructed to receive . . . with reasonable or adequate consistency, the entire spectrum of radio frequencies in recognized use in the art. ..." Lawful designation: "Limited All-Wave," etc., with the exact wave bands or frequencies clearly stated...
...Offered her a market into which she dumped $18,108,000 worth of odds and ends in the first five 1939 months: crabmeat, tea, pyrethrum flowers (for insecticides), chinaware, electric light bulbs, zippers, toys, etc...
SYMPHONIC, ETC...
Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously...
...have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere, but not to advantage. To be unable to buy parts for her U.S.-made trucks, etc. might be embarrassing to Japan, especially if Canada (which has U.S. motor subsidiaries) should also clamp down. To U.S. manufacturers such an embargo might mean a loss of around $175,000,000 a year in sales...