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Final speaker on the first day's program was Professor William Yandell Elliot, also a WPB official, who discussed problems associated with accumulating and shipping war materials...
...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 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...
...Detroit shuddered over reports that WPB was about to order all of its auto molds and dies (made of high-alloy nickel steel) turned into scrap for munitions. Worth infinitely more than their $60,000,000 valuation in terms of quick postwar conversion to car production, their destruction would ensure a post-war designer's field day (see p. 82), would turn current models into worthless antiques even more surely than wartime rationing of tires...
...WPB ordered 20,000 U.S. auto graveyards to convert all their jalopies into scrap every 60 days or face requisitioning. Within two and a half years, guessed WPB, 15,000,000 more cars will be junked-double the peacetime rate, and half of all the cars now in service...
...plug this gap workmen are now digging up local pipelines in the Southwest, assembling them into a makeshift cross-country pipeline. In addition oilmen have asked once more for a 1,400-mile pipeline from Texas to New Jersey, which has been twice turned down by WPB and predecessors for lack of steel. Finally oilmen have still another idea: let the Navy convoy tankers up the East Coast. But that is something the Navy is not likely to do until it has more warships or fewer places to fight...