Word: seismographs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...music business, a rough & ready seismograph of all public concerns, was beginning to zigzag to the war in Korea. Biggest of a crop of new patriotic songs sprouting along Tin Pan Alley was a brash tune in march tempo called The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record...
Besides its many telescopes, the station also has one of the few seismographs in this area. Its building is of red brick like all the others, but the foundation lies 13 feet in the solid bed rock ledge below the station. To avoid the slightest crack or deformation, workmen dug the foundation by hand, and poured all the concrete at one time. In the above-ground rooms, students and professors watch several machines which have needles drawing red lines on continuous rolls of graphed paper. These machines report each variation, no matter how slight, in the seismograph below ground. Visitors...