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8/15/41
from the Philips Company and a branch of a well-known United States company, 10 or 12 companies account for the remaining production of radio sets by local factories. The Philips Company is the principal competitor of United States radio manufacturers.
Price cutting is so prevalent in the tube business that Argentina is a relatively unprofitable market. There is seldom more than a 15-percent margin between retail prices and the impor¬ ter's (or local manufacturer's) set quotations. It is said that, in their effort to lead the Argentine radio market, the local branch of the Philips Company has granted exceedingly long credits to numerous retail outlets. This practice has had an unsettling effect on the industry as a whole, and has tended to place reliable independent Importers and distributors at a disadvantage.
Estimates place the number of sets sold annually at 200,000. The number of sets in use is estimated roughly by the trade at 1,050,000. Over two-thirds of all receiving sets sold are believed to be home receivers of the standard socket-power types.
Most of these operate on both alternating and direct current.
The largest seller is the five-tuba me diura-andshort-wave model, with 6-inch speaker of popular design and style manufactured in the United States. Bandspreaders for short-wave tuing are now offered on a wider range of sets, and it is expected that this feature will be extended to low-priced models during the coming year. One or two local laboratories have developed their own bandspreader devices independently of American designs.
During the last 4 months of 1940, permits were denied on most radio materials from the United States. Current regulations provide that importers may bring in radio materials from the United States up to 50 percent of their corresponding imports during the first quarter of 1940. This applies to tubes and most radio acces¬ sories and components, but does not cover complete receiving sets, permits on which have not been available since the beginning of 1939. A former provision allowing each importer to bring in a small annual quota of merchandise outside the scope of the exchangecontrol lists (a privilege used by some firms to import radio receiv ing sets) has been r escinded.
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This interesting item appears in the August issue of Relay, the family magazine of R. C.A. Communications, Inc,:
"A historic event took place in Room 404 of the Main Office between 10:08 and 10:21 A. M. on July 8. During those thirteen minutes. Technician Matty Rehm received the first radiophoto ever sent from Russia. Transmitting station RYG-, in Moscow, is 4,614 ®iles away. To equal our delivery time, an airplane would have had to fly at a rate of 21,500 miles per hour.
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