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Heinl Radio News Service
6/11/47
RADIO TUBE MFG. PLANT FOR SALE
War Assets Administration announced today that efforts are now being made to find a new purchaser for the radio-tube manufactur¬ ing plant at Bowling Green, Ky. , leased and operated during the war by the General Electric Company.
New disposal activities for the property have been occas¬ ioned by the fact that WAA has been notified by the ElectraVoice Corporation, of Chicago, successful bidder for the plant last February, that present conditions are such that it is unable to complete the transaction. Since the war the plant has been kept in operation by the General Electric Company, and ElectraVoice was to take it over July 1, 1947.
Sale of the property to ElectraVoice for $781,000 was approved February 20, 1947. The property had a reported original cost to the government of $1,061,481. Because of its economic im¬ portance to the city of Bowling Green, as well as its immediate availability for productive use, WAA is making every effort to effect satisfactory disposal of the plant as quickly as possible for use either as an electronic plant or for general manufacturing purposes.
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NO OBJECTION YET MADE TO WAKEFIELD RENOMINATION
The office of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee said as of today (Wednesday, June 11th), no objections had been received regarding the renomination of Commissioner Ray C. Wakefield to the Federal Communications Commission.
Hearings having been held at the time Mr. Wakefield was nominated for his first term, no further hearings are planned at this time.
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GEN. SAMUEL THOMAS NEW V-P, GEN. SUPT. RCA COMMUNICATIONS
Appointment of Samuel M. Thomas as Vice President and General Superintendent of RCA Communications, Inc., was announced last week by Thompson H. Mitchell, Executive Vice President.
Since Joining RCA Communications in 1946, Mr. Thomas has been responsible for the engineering and planning phases of the com¬ pany^ modernization program which includes conversion of its world¬ wide radiotelegraph system from Morse to automatic tape-relay and telegraph printing operations. Mr. Thomas was formerly associated with the Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company.
Prior to his retirement from the Army with the rank of Brigadier General, Mr. Thomas had served as Chief of Staff to the Commanding General of the Persian Gulf Command, and later was appoint ed Director of the Communications Division, Office of Military Govern ment, in Berlin.
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