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DIAMOND SAW OPERATOR AT CAMDEN PLANT OF RCA VICTOR DIVISION, CUTTING A NAT- URAL CRYSTAL WHICH, AFTER PROCESSING, WILL CONTROL RADIO AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS. Radio Crystal Bottleneck Broken MIRACLE OF PRODUCT/ON AT RCA VICTOR DIVISION PLANT AT CAMDEN. N. J.. SPEEDS OUTPUT OF COMPONENTS VITAL TO RADIO-ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES FOR ARMED FORCES 6y Harry E. Leroy Plant Manager, RCA Victor Division, Camden, X. ./. AMONG the many miracles of , American production to be credited with helping to turn the tide of the war against the Axis is the breaking of a critical bottle- neck in crystals, a vital component of radio, sound and electronic com- munication equipment. The state- ment revealing the breaking of the bottleneck was made recently by the War Production Board, and it serves to focus attention on the con- tributions to the war effort made by the men and women of the RCA Crystal Manufacturing Department in Camden. Paced by a rapid rise in demand for radio, electronic, and communi- cation equipment for the armed forces following this country's en- try into the war, crystal production expanded almost overnight from a small section of the Special Appara- tus Department, occupying about two-thirds of a floor in the Camden plant, into a separate department, now occupying two complete floors and part of a third. To meet the Government's im- perative wartime need for crystals, RCA Victor within a few months recruited and trained enough new operators and technicians to swell the department's personnel to more than 800 per cent of its peacetime peak, and increased the production of crystals by 1,500 per cent. The percentage of increase in production over that in personnel was in part accomplished by labor and material saving production re- finements, credited to three sources: First, suggestions made by employees; second, advances made by the department's research engi- neers; and third, shortcuts devel- oped by members of the laboratory's supervisory staff in the course of breaking doivTi and simplifying procedures for new employees. RADIO AGE 15]