Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Murray, the Tiffany and Sears, Roebuck of U.S. dance, has almost every kind of pupil in his nationwide chain of 146 dance schools. But the trade of socialites is fast being augmented by the trade of new-rich war workers, who have long listened to the juke-box hit "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry...
Party. In Denver, restaurant burglars made off with six cartons of candy, two pies, the contents of seven gum machines, one juke-box record: Why Don't We Do This More Often...
...Seattle, 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...
...most often compared to an oldtime general store, but it is more than that. A typical exchange has a bar serving low alcoholic beer (it may not be intoxicating), juke boxes, a shooting range, a soda fountain where a soldier can buy a lunch topped off by a triple-dip ice-cream soda. Usually there are also a barbershop, cobbler's shop, a tailor to make alterations in issue clothing for the carefully dressed soldier. Last week the Exchange Service added a new feature: officer's uniforms that a new second lieutenant can buy within the range...
...basic and little emphasized complaint of the AFM against the recording industry, corrective steps should be taken. It is in this point, that musicians do not gain a proportional royalty return for their records played in juke boxes or over the radio, that the kernel of legitimate complaint in Petrillo's truckload of hot air lies. Ironically, the legal reasoning that prevents such returns, by declaring that companies have no post-sale control over records, is the same that will now prevent all new recordings when Petrillo's ruling that subsist on canned music. But the answer does...