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12/22/42
; TRADE NOTES :
Scheduling of deliveries of electronic equipment under the precedence list issued by the Joint Communications Board of the Array and Navy will begin February 15, instead of January 1, 1943, the War Production Board announced last Friday. The change is made under Amendment 1 to Limitation Order No. L~183-a.
Subject to revision, this schedule comprises: (1) Mica paper, electrolytic or ceramic capacitors; (2) resistors; and (3) electric measuring or indicating instruments. ^
Station WLW is now on the air 24 hours a day.
Signal Corps procurement of apparatus last November increas¬ ed 30.5 percent in dollar volume of deliveries over the previous month of October, and compared with an increase of 13.5 percent for November for the entire Array Service ofSupplies, according to announcements made December 12 by Secretary of War Stirason. The November deliveries to the Signal Corps were 1328 percent over Janu¬ ary 1942, the first full production month after Pearl ^arbor. This compared with a total SOS Increase of 337 percent.
Office of Price Administration announces Government-owned recording discs, will be melted do^m to add to the supply of vital materials used in the production of rubber substitutes and synthetic rubber.
The Board of War Communications issued an order (25-C) making final, effective today (December 22, 1942, the discontinuance of nontele graphic services by the telegraph industry and forbidding effective that same date the transmission of any domestic felicita¬ tion or congratulation messages (those both originating at and addressed to points within the continental United States.
The order does not, of course, affect any traffic, including special rate messages, to and from members of the Armed Forces over¬ seas, or general low-rate arrival and departure messages, known as "tourate*’ messages.
Says the Washington Star;
•'When you make an important telephone call you often have to wait while your interlocutor turns off his radio. When you are listening to your favorite broadcast the phone is sure to ring at least three times even if it has been silent all day. This is call¬ ed modern progrss,
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