Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1946)

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He lnl Radio News Service 7/3/46 ADVISES RADIO MANUFACTURERS TO KEEP THEIR SHIRTS ON As a precaution against too hasty action in the present OPA crisis, R. c. Cosgrove, President of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, and Vice-President and General Manager of the Manu¬ facturing Division of The Crosley Radio Corporation, sent the fol¬ lowing message to members last Tuesday afternoon: MIn view of the uncertain legislative situation and in response to inquiries from RMA members, I believe it advisable for all* members of the radio industry to continue very reasonable prices as near present prices as possible on radio sets and parts.” From another source it was learned that there was not a great deal of apprehension regarding radio manufacturers boosting set prices unnecessarily. "If anything, the first chance they get the big boys in the business are more likely to cut the prices”, this informant ventured. "There are now something like 200 radio manufacturers in the business and the larger ones will undoubtedly lose no time trying to kill off the smaller ones by highly competitive measures. ” xxxxxxxxxxx SYLVANIA APPOINTS NEW DIFECTOR OF ITS ENGINEERING LABS. Dr. Bennett S. Ellefson has been appointed Director of the Central Engineering Laboratories of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. He will direct planning, organization and coordination of fundamental and applied research and development for the Company’s radio, electronic and lighting products. Dr. Ellefson, a native of Minnesota, has been active in pure and applied research for the Company since early 1937, special¬ izing in the fields of glass and fluorescing chemical compounds, in which he has made important contributions to the progress" of the radio, radar and television arts. Among these are improved glass structures for special ser¬ vice and mass-produced radio tubes and improved screens for radar and television viewing tubes affording better images with respect to brilliance and definition. His work with fluorescing chemical compounds for color television began in 1940 and resulted in some of the first practical color viewing tubes. XXXXXXXXX 10