YOUR DOLLAR
Union, Consumers
Your Dollar By CONSUMERS UNION THE WAR has bred a new interest in maps and globes, reports CU. Globes are particularly useful because only a globe can accurately show the shapes and relative sizes...
...But this year, you must be a particularly careful buyer...
...Although flat maps are useful and necessary for detailed study a globe is needed for an understanding of the true relationships...
...A dealer may receive one excellent shipment of a certain album, followed by a bad one...
...Trade press surveys show that manufacturers are no longer making low-priced women's coats, dresses, and blouses...
...Rayon dresses retailing for $2.50 last year now cost $3.30...
...Among those highly recommended are: Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major...
...It's necessary, therefore, to try out every single disk for surface defects...
...Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra (Victor 11-8349...
...Corelli: Organ Concerto in C Major: Sonata for Organ and Strings in D Major...
...Columbia M-530, $3.50...
...Good Record Albums You can still find many good record albums on the market, says CU, in spite of manpower and material scarcities...
...Low-priced accessories, such as shoes, hats, gloves, and pocketbooks, are so poorly made as to be worthless...
...12" diameter, universal mount, $6.95 at retail stores...
...Cram Universal Globe, Model 230...
...Children's clothes cost more today, for shoddy quality, than we used to pay for good quality...
...Schubert: Trio in B-flat, Op...
...Columbia M-534, $3.50...
...Globes are particularly useful because only a globe can accurately show the shapes and relative sizes of all areas, the true distances which separate them, and true directions—all of which are helpful in understanding global war...
...8.75's now sell for $10.75...
...In its issue, CU comments on 48 new albums...
...Columbia 71469-D, $1...
...Victor M-923, $4.50...
...Victor M-924, $2.50...
...Shostakovich: Quartet, Op...
...Records within a single album may vary in quality...
...8" diameter, universal mount, $3.95 from Denoyer-Geppert Co., 5241 Ravens-wood Ave., Chicago 40...
...Villa-Lobos: The Baby's Family...
...Women's slips which used to wholesale at $6.75 a dozen now cost $15...
...Quality Is Disappearing Low-priced goods are disappearing from the market, reports Bread & Butter...
...Cheesecloth which used to be used for chair bottoms, at 4 cents a yard, now wholesales at 35 cents a yard for use in blouses, says the trade...
...Barber: Adagio for Strings...
...The fight between the record companies and the Musician's Union has put a stop to new recordings except by Decca, which has signed an agreement with the union...
...12 1/2" diameter, on fixed axis, $2.79 at map stores...
...Columbia X-231, $2.50...
...When quality depreciation is counted in, says Bread & Butter, it will be found that actual increases in living costs are far higher than the official figures indicate...
...Columbia 17355-D, 75 cents...
...Songs of Free Men: Robeson...
...The flat maps most of us learned to use at school don't reveal the true geographical relationships between continents, and hence breed false ideas about world geography and world politics...
...Victor 11-8287...
...Victor M-949, $5.50...
...7 in B-flat...
...Rand McNally Air-Age Globe...
...Here are some of the globes which CU considers give good value for the money: Polar View Globe, No...
...Liberty Globe, G805M...
...Other companies are depending for their "new" releases on their backlog of recordings made before August 1942...
...Dresses retailing for less than $4 have almost entirely vanished from New York stores, and the few now offered are inferior...
...6" diameter, $1 from Weber and Costello, Chicago Hts., Ill...
...Wagner: Traume and Schmerzen...
...Beethoven: Trio No...
...The garments which are still made have been upgraded all along the line...
...Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade (Victor M-920, $5.50...
...Even the salesmen in retail stores admit that quality of low-priced clothing has gone down...
...Owing to the shortages, quality now varies not only from company to company, but even from record to record...
...Nevertheless, many important new albums have been published, both of modern and classical music...
Vol. 8 • January 1944 • No. 1
