Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1944)

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2/22/44 Manufacturers are endeavoring to guide the flow of batteries into normal pre-war channels. No priority is required for purchase of batteries, and no farmer is given any advantage over another in purchasing batteries. Shipments of No, 6 (6 inch) type ba.tteries, Including multi¬ ple types, were almost exactly the same in 1943 as in 1940, These batteries are used to a large extent in rural areas for telephones, gas engine ignition, and electric fences, ^arge quantities are used also by railroad, telephone and telegraph companies, by the fishing industry, and for protective alarm systems. More than 55,000,000 individual cells were produced for assembly into hearing aid batteries. Final figures show that produc¬ tion of assembled hearing aid ’’B" batteries reached a total of approx¬ imately 1,600,000. All military operations, on land and sea and in the air, require enormous quantities of dry batteries. If batteries are not immediately available for the family radio, it is because batteries are needed for walkie-talkies, bazookas, signal lights, or other war equipment. xxxxxxxx : : : TRADE NOTES l t l John P. Southmayd, attorney in the FCC Administration and Litigation Division, is leaving the Commission March 1st to become associated with the law firm of Fisher & Wayland in the Earle Build¬ ing. Mr. Southmayd has been with the FCC since February, 1941, Ben Fisher, former Assistant General Counsel of the Federal Radio Com¬ mission is newly elected President of the FCC Bar Association, United Nationsl Radio Algiers (North Africa) and Radio Bari (Italy) Sunday Inaugurated a regular schedule of re broadcasts of sev¬ eral CBS musicprograms specifically designed for French and Italian speaking listeners in that portion of the world. How television of the future might cover or supplement the news will be demonstrated to members of the American Newspaper Pub¬ lishers* Association by General Electric at Schenectady on Friday, April 28th, the day following the close of the publishers annual con¬ vention in New York City, The invitation to the 600 publishers has been extended by the publishers' association, cooperating with General Ele ctric, so that the newspapers may see and judge for themselves how television might be helpful to them in the dissemination of news. Schrapnel from an anti-aircraft gun firing in the heavy raid over London last week shattered a window in the London office of the Foreign Brx)adcasting Intelligence Service of the "pcC. John Mitchell, the editor in charge, and his staff of five wereunharraed. The func¬ tion of the staff'is to prepare reports for American and United Nations government agencies on the content of foreign radio broadcasts, XXXXXXXX 11