Business & Finance: Muzak Music

Tycoons in Manhattan were last week offered for the first time a luxury already enjoyed in about one of every seven homes in Holland. The select list who followed the example of 340,000 Dutchmen already included Harrison Williams of North American Co., Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph, John A. Hartford of A. & P., Motorman Walter P. Chrysler. Oilman J. Paul Getty. For a fee of $50 a month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water or electricity....

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