Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changed Hours. Meanwhile the stores jam through one operation change after another. To take care of war workers and extra-busy housewives, most stores stay open until 9 or 10 one or two nights a week. To offset the transportation pinch a Sears, Roebuck outlet in Sacramento started a free bus service-a sales-getting scheme used for years in outlying Brooklyn districts. And counter revolutions go on endlessly: jams & jellies on the toilet-goods counter; dinnerware in the outlawed electrical-goods department; blackout accessories on the once-busy hosiery counter...
...beer taverns, juke joints, dine & dance spots have twice as many frolickers as a year ago; everybody seems to have extra cash to spend, especially aircraft workers, longshoremen, sailors. Weekly gross at The Ranch runs up to $18,000, almost double earlier this year. At the Olympic Hotel youngsters jam the ballroom; about 90% of the boys are in uniform. In private clubs (only in clubs can liquor be sold by the drink) business has doubled, and clanging slot machines often pay all a club's operating expenses. Unlike most cities, Seattle revelers bypass cancan shows, prefer jugglers, acrobats...
...nearly three years the gremlins devoted themselves exclusively to the R.A.F. But recently Sergeant Gunner Z. E. White of Dallas, Tex. had the guns on "Big Punk," his Flying Fortress, jam just as he got a German Focke-Wulf 190 in his sights over the North Sea. When White reported what had happened, Pilot Oscar Coen, one of the three original members of the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, nodded his head sagely. A noted gremlinologist, Coen knew then that the gremlins had joined the U.S. Air Forces and that the time had come for their activities to be explained...
Boston's debt to Frankie Newton is tremendous. When his seven piece band moved into the Savoy last January, local jazz had been nonexistent for over five years. A jam band like Frankie's was a big risk for the Savoy, as their clientele was used to small jump bands, whose only virtue lay in six arrangements cribbed from Basic. If Newton's boys started the evening with any arrangements in their rack, there wasn't a sheet of paper in sight by ten. Fortunately the band went over tremendously. Weeks became months. The Savoy jammed and was jammed, nightly...
Thus Frankie started the present era of jazz in Boston, the greatest in Hub history. There've been regular engagements of some of the greatest living jazzmen, and first one, then two jam sessions simultaneously. Unbelievable in this day, because it happened in Boston, and all the more unbelievable because it happened when jazz is supposedly on its last legs...