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Heinl Radio News Service
2/20/46
negotiation, upon a bid basis, or upon a fixed price basis. In the latter case, where items are in long supply a discount may be offer¬ ed to the dealers. It is probable that prompt and wide distribution may be facilitated by additional metnods, such as sale through agents or approved brokers upon a commission basis.
’’The disposal of radio and electrical equipment presents handling and merchandising problems of great complexity, and exist¬ ing procedures are not wholly adequate, A later reoort will present a disposal program embodying contemplated improvements. ”
The status of some of the government-owned radio equipment plants costing the government more than $5,000,000 each is shown by the following table:
Wartime Operator and Location
Owning Chief Agency Products
Land and Buildings
Machinery and other
Total
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. , Ipswich, Mass.
Navy
Radio
$5,167,000 ( e st . )
General Cable
Corp.
St. Louis, Mo.
DPC
Signal
Corps
Field
Wire
$1,780,678
$3,411,721
5,192,400
Western Electric Co. , New York
Air
Corps
Radio
7,032,000 (est. )
General Electric Co. ,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Radio & Radar
7,398,000 (est. )
Radio Corp. of America
Lancaster, Pa.
Navy
Power & Special Tubes
2,978,000
4,514,000
7,492,000 (est. )
Western Electric
DPC
Radio
6,171,715
612, 667
6, 784,382*
Co.
Eau Claire, Wis.
* Some equipment not included in this figure.
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Told for the first time is the story of an American Radio Station ”1212" known also as ’’operation Annie” that comforted the Germans and hoaxed them. A detailed account of this remarkable undertaking was told in the magazine section of the New York Times last Sunday, February 17,
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