accessible for servicing. Salted
peanuts have gone to war —
more properly, the special oil
made from peanuts is taking
the biggest share of the avail
able peanut crop. The same ap
plies to salted soy beans, an
item which was just introduced
as a suitable vending machine
item at the outbreak of the war.
When peace comes, the abun
dance of salted soy beans will
keep the prices of salted pea
nuts in line. Ball gum produc
tion has been drastically cur
tailed by the sugar rationing,
and the uncertain shipments of
the gum base. Candies of all
kinds are scarce, due to heavy
demand for candy by the arm
ed forces, and the rationing of
necessary raw materials.
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“ Y o u h a v e n ’t looked so w ell
fo r years, old m a n !”
“Ah, it’s the exercise I get—
tossing around in bed at night
worrying about the business.”
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A bishop attended a banquet
and a clumsy waiter dropped
a plate of soup in his lap. The
good man glanced around with
a look of agony and exclaimed :
“Will some layman please
say something appropriate?”
MAKE
IT A H A B I T !
Buy W A R
BONDS and
STAM PS
Regularly!
A N O T H E R
Old-Time Favorite Discs
Are Best Sellers Today
Popular d a n c e records of
yesteryear, considered sesation-
al in their day and which have
remained steady though not
large-scale sellers ever since
are now spurting ahead in de
mand, the Victor-Bluebird sur
vey of best sellers reveals. Discs
that were top sellers six and
seven years ago, the survey dis
closes, now figures prominently
on the list of current best sel
lers.
High on the list of Victor’s
best sellers is Tommy Dorsey’s
“Stardust,” recorded in 1936.
The D o r s e y performance on
this tune has turned the record
into a standard classic. Other
T. Dorsey hits that rank high
on V i c t o r ’ s current list are
“Song of India” and “Marie,”
two famous discs of 1937, and
“Boogie Woogie,” which dates
from 1938.
In 1938, Artie Shaw, then a
comparatively unknown band
leader, recorded “Begin the Be-
guine.” The record helped es
tablish him as a top-ranking
bandleader. Five years later, it
is still high on Victor’s best sel
ler list. Another Shaw classic
in demand today is his “Star
dust” backed by “Temptation.”
This was a popular favorite of
1940.
M O N T H
N E A R E R
IN T E R N A T IO N A L
V IC T O R Y !
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CORP.
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Manufacturers of Photomatic and Other Famous Coin Operated Equipment
44-01 Eleventh Street
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AUTOMATIC AGE
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The Glenn Miller era really
began in 1939 and, though he
is now serving with the Army,
his early records are now on
the s a m e list with his latest
discs. The Miller records of
t h a t y e a r , “In the Mood,”
“Moonlight Serenade” a n d
“Sunrise Serenade,” are today
among the ten top best sellers
on the Bluebird label. Also in
that group is his “Tuxedo Junc
tion,” recorded in 1940.
One of the oldest popular
discs, in point of years, on Vic
tor’s current list is Rudy Val-
lee’s “As Time Goes By,” re
corded in 1931. In this case,
however, the renewed demand
for the record was the result
of the revival of the song in
the film, “Casablanca.”
M a n y of Duke Ellington’s
records still in demand date
from 1927. But a top selling
record is the Duke’s “Don’t
Get Around Much Anymore.”
His fans remember it well in
1940. It was then known as
“Never No Lament.”
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Install Industrial Music Unit
in Bermingham
The well-known Hurvich
brothers, owners of the Ber
mingham Vending Co., Ber
mingham, Ala., have installed
an industrial music unit in a
large local textile plant. Loud
speaker attachments to phono
graph furnish music to workers
while they work — actually
achieving the cheerful “whistle
while they work”. Contented
and happy workers perform
more efficiently. The enjoyment
of music does much to relax
the tenseness usually present
among workers concentrating
on a piece of work. Relaxation
does much to increase concen
tration on work, and there is
nothing better suited to achieve
this d e s i r e d efficiency than
good music.
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