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12/10/43
TRADE NOTES
The 1943-1944 FUvIA membership and trade directory with data on the personnel and products has Just been issued showing the Association’s membership now totaling 180 trading companies to be the largest RIxlA membership since the ’’deoression” period. The new directory is being circulated widely in the radio and associated industries, and to government agencies and officials, including the Army and Navy, foreign purchasing commissions, commercial organiza¬ tions, technical libraries, and the trade press.
The Radio Corporation of America will hold its annual Christmas party in the Rainbow drill, 65th floor, RCA Building, on Friday, December 17th, four to seven o’clock.
George P. Ludlum has been appointed Deputy Chief in charge of the New York OWI Domestic Radio Division office, Mr. Ludlum will also continue as head of the Special Assignments Section. He succeeds Merritt W, Barnum who goes to the Ruthrauff Ryan Adve2>tising Agency in New York.
The Senate Finance Committee considering the House Bill approved an increase from 15 to 25 per cent on domestic telegraph, radio and cable service, retained present rate of 10 per cent on international service. Tax on leased wires raised from 15 to 25 per cent (the House had approved a 20 per cent rate), Wlr^ and equip¬ ment service ’burglar and fire alarms), 8 percent rate approved, (It now is 5 percent, and the House had voted 7 percent).
The Senate group also approved changes raising tax on loc¬ al service from 10 percent to 15 percent, and on long-distance calls from 20 to 25 percent.
Identification of atoms in ultra-microscopic particles of matter no larger than l/l00,000 of an inch in diameter can be accom¬ plished quickly and accurately for the first time by a revolutionary new tool of science the electron micro-analyzer developed exper¬ imentally by Dr. James Hillier of RCA Laboratories,
Mayor LaGuardia addressed the Radio Executives Club last week and told this story of the WNYC broadcasts made by the politi¬ cal leaders who had demanded the right to reply to LaGuardia’ s broadcast about the Aurelio election: When their broadcasts had been completed, Fiorello called Morros Novik, Director of the munic¬ ipal station WNYC, and said, according to Leonard Lyons’ New York column: ’’Morris, it was a great example of tolerance these men,
representing rival political parties, uniting in one program. That's tolerance, Morris. "Maybe it was", Novik informed him, "but
they made their b roadca sts from different rooms."
Another dispatch from New York reports that "The Bulova radio stations may have a change of OTOership soon. The chain con¬ sists of two stations in New York and one each in Boston, Hartford and New Haven. "
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