Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, through which Decca revolutionized the popular-record business seven years ago, was almost dead and buried. Columbia put its purple Okeh label into storage for the duration. Victor still clung to its Bluebird name, Decca to its standard blue label, but all three moved their top names (e.g., Victor's Glenn Miller, Columbia's Benny Goodman, Decca's Jimmy Dorsey) up to the 50? platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from...
...Crosby's band, a two-part version of the blues "Outskirts of Town" by Jimmy Lunceford, and an album of blues and other folk songs by Libby Holman. Decca seems to have cornered the market on jazz for the time being on its new fifty-cent black label, except for the Commodore Music Shop, whose most recent products under Eddie Condon and Mel Powell compare favorably with almost anything in your collection...
...Selection Boards. If a man is "passed over" twice, he is retired at the end of a prescribed period. Although only some 50% of all Navy officers are Annapolis graduates, Annapolis men dominate most Selection Boards. In awarding promotions, they seem invariably to favor those who wear the Annapolis label...
...Practically perfect human beings from the standpoint of physical endurance," is the label place on the members of the Varsity crew by the Fatigue Laboratory. Their rating generally is 100, or even more, and the more normal residue of the undergraduates are graded on a proportionate scale down to zero. But it is doubtful, they say, that even the most non-athletic grind could attain this lowest of scores...
...last desperate attempt to break through, the invaders threw into the melee their "panzer" division--a truck with the label "Tank" on its sides, but the nefarious machine was stopped in its tracks by a deadly burst of point-blank artillery fire...