Word: phonographers
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...refrigerator, pulled the string again and returned to the large, black leather couch in the sanctum. The night was hot and quiet and the beer cold and satisfying. A blue magnesium light on Plympton Street flickered white, then changed back to blue with a litle click. Someone's phonograph was playing from a room in Adams House. Suddenly, completely without warning, the fragile atmosphere shattered into a million crazy sounds. At first they were all garbled like a short wave broadcast, and Vag could not make them out. He lay back on the couch and listened intently...
...voices faded away just as if someone had turned off a radio, and all Vag could hear was the toy music of the distant phonograph, and the constant purring of the refrigerator. Then Vag remembered what it was he had forgotten to do. He had forgotten to sign for the beer. The devil with it. This one would be on the house. For the first time in two years Vag felt like a guest, and he knew that his host had the most wonderful house in the world, even if it did run on assessments...
...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 distributors one old record for every three new ones bought. Reason: reclaimed materials stretch virgin shellac three times as far. The man in the street did not yet have to chip in with old records, but many retail shops were angling for them...
...Surprise packages, each 47 inches by 23 by 15, weighing 250 pounds, going soon to the troops abroad. Into these weatherproof, shock-absorbing cases the Army packs a long-and short-wave receiving set, a phonograph turntable, 50 phonograph records, 25 half-hour transcriptions of top network commercial programs, a collection of songbooks, several harmonicas, 100 paperbound volumes of recent fiction, spare batteries and tubes...
Latest victim of the war are the music stores, for on April 22 the government froze 70 per cent of the shellae vital to the production of phonograph records. Now record producers insist that dealers turn in one used record for every three new ones they obtain, and music stores feel that soon they will have to ask customers to bring in old recordings in exchange for new purchases. Radio manufacture also was stopped in April, but the most acute shortage in this connection is of skilled repairmen, many of whom have joined the Army Signal Corps...