Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1936)

12/4/36 GERMANY INTRODUCES NEW SYSTEM OF TRADE DISCOUNTS FOR RADIO The German Minister of Economy has decreed that a new schedule of maximum trade discounts is to be introduced in the German wholesale and retail radio trade. According to this decree, manufacturers of radio receiving sets, tubes and loudspeakers can only grant certain specified rates of maximum discounts on the retail values to wholesalers and retailers doing business on the domestic market. The maximum allowable discount rate in the case of each dealer is based on ther certified turnover in radio receiv¬ ing sets, tubes ana loudspeakers achieved by that dealer in a specified period of 12 months. XXXXXXXXXX FCC ANNOUNCES $12,000,000 PHONE RATE CUT The second major reduction in long-distance telephone rates since the Government’s investigation of the American Tele¬ phone & Telegraph Co. began was announced December 2nd by the Federal Communications Commission. The reduction amounting to $12,000,000 a year will become effective, Commissioner Paul Walker said, as soon as new rate schedules can be prepared "and in any event not later than midJanuary. " Both Mr. Walker and Walter S. Gifford, A. T. & T. President commended the method in which the rate reduction was negotiated, without long drawn out legal battles. In New York, Mr. Gifford noted it was the ninth reduction in the past ten years, "The new cut", Mr. Walker said, was the result of informal conferences between the Commission and the company, and followed a $10,000,000 reduction by the comoany last September, just prior to the first hearing in the Commission's far-reaching study of the company's capital structure, Mr. Walker disclosed the Commission was running short of funds and would ask Congress for a new appropria tion of $350,000 to assure completion of the inquiry. Funds now on hand, he said, would finance it only through January. XXXXXXXX 11