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Most important factors are: 1) a shortage of skilled manpower, as in most U.S. industries; 2) government rationing of shellac (which comes from India) at 20% of prewar needs; 3) wear & tear on nonreplaceable machinery; 4) lack of adequate transportation and packing facilities...
...dough" was royalties ranging from ¼? to 5?, a tribute which Decca will pay into the union treasury for every record it sells. If all record companies sign, the union will receive about $500,000 a year, perhaps as much as $3,000,000 a year when the wartime shellac shortage ends...
...swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden are plugging vigorously. Practically every Victor refuse has a new McIntyre record on it. The band is one of the best to come up in a long time, and deserves a break if only...
...drive has two primary objects--salvaging material for war production and the furthering of armed service morale. Old cloth can be used in industrial processing, while broken records are now the only source of shellac from which new records can be made. The need for scrap rubber and metal is too well-known to require comment. Here is something which you can do for the war effort which takes no money. It doesn't even take any time. It will merely clear your room of excess junk and old cloth that is really needed somewhere else...
Behind this gramophonic frenzy was a worthy idea: to collect old, unwanted records, sell them for scrap, and with the proceeds buy new records at cost for U.S. soldiers and sailors. It was also a scheme to collect sorely needed shellac for the manufacture of new records...