Word: shellac
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...band has new put this Album on one LP record, and it sounds better then ever. The original 1946 version was on Shellac, it was re-pressed two years later on Vinylite; the new LP combines the performance of the former with the sparkle of the latter, all on one nice big convenient disk...
...offenses that insects are guilty of (they eat man's crops and belongings; they carry diseases; they buzz and they bite). But to catalogue their virtues, Hyslop uses more than twice as much space. For man's benefit and pleasure, he points out, insects produce silk, shellac, beeswax and honey. They pollinize plants. They improve the soil by burrowing into it and dying. Singing crickets and fighting crickets are part of show business to the Chinese. Some insects, including locusts, ants, beetles and caterpillars, are food for some people (the Hyslop family tried the 17-year locust, fried...
...appreciation is there more interest in stylistic identification than among jazz fans. They are always listening to ancient collectors' items and trying to determine the author of this or that faint one or two bar solo practically indistinguishable from the whirring of the needle rubbing over the worn-out shellac. But the particular creature being described herein is not merely interested in identification, he is obsessed with it. He lies awake at nght thinking up harder and cleverer quizzes. Even the Chemistry Department would blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots of those falsely reassuring...
...Labor. Up until the June 30 suspension of OPA, the seven-year price rise of this war equalled that of a four-and-a-half year period in the last. Samples of the latest market increases, from another source, show hides up 74 per cent since June 29; shellac up 80 per cent; cocoa beans up 65 per cent; and foodstuffs up 30 per cent...
Asch, whose studio is a cluttered room in Manhattan's drab WFVD building, has almost a fear of hits, and he brushes off commercial jazz as if it were an unmentionable disease. Unlike most record companies, which have lavished their scarce shellac on surefire songs, Asch frequently stops making an album just when it is selling well, so he can put out something else-which may or may not sell. He has put out about 40 albums in the past three years, hopes to issue another 40 this year...