Television digest with AM-FM reports (Jan-Dec 1950)

3 pared for sampling only. Checking to find who placed reported order for 200,000 of these, we got denials from every major tubemaker, notably DuMont, GE, RCA, Sylvania. Someone in ad dept, of Spincraft, it develops, gave out data prematurely and erroneously, probably in an excess of zeal., The 200,000 units actually refer to one order for 17-in. rectangular metal envelopes for an unnamed customer (good guess is RCA). Actually, the Spincraft ”24-in." is misnomer; diagonal is just about that of a newspaper page (28-in.), which could be laid almost exactly over faceplate. Note : RCA is now itself spinning envelopes for some of own 16-in. rounds. SELLING ELECTRONICS TO THE MILITARY: still worth repeating; You've got to go look for military contracts. Services aren't going to come to you. Best place to start is Dept, of Defense's Central Procurement Information Office in Pentagon Bldg. There, you'll get pamphlets on hov; to deal with Army, Navy, Air Force. You will also be directed to proper officials for your products. It isn't necessary to come to Washington, you can write. Each service also has procurement information office, where you can get more detailed information. Electronics equipment is bought separately by Army, Navy, Air Force . Your first objective is to get on registered bidders' lists, so you will be sent invitations to bid on your item. (As military buying is stepped up, more contracts will be negotiated directly, but law now requires bids for all items over |1000. ) If you're a small manufacturer, not geared for prime contract (end product), get on lists anyway so you can learn who gets big contracts. Then you can deal directly with prime contractor for subcontracts. Each month. Dept, of Commerce publishes Synopsis of Proposed Government Purchases. Monthly, also, is its Consolidated Synopsis of Contract Award Information., They can be gotten from any of Commerce's 42 field offices or from your local trade association or chamber of commerce. Some 2000 organizations now get lists. Main Army electronics procurement is by Signal Corps, by far largest of all users. Its main procurement office is Philadelphia Signal Depot, 2800 S. 20th St., Philadelphia. That office also handles research and development procurement for Signal Corps labs at Ft. Monmouth, N.J. Handling Signal Corps procurement in Philadelphia is Col. Benjamin Stern. Heading it in Washington is Brig. Gen. A. M. Shearer, with Col. E. V. Elder and Lt . Col. R. C. Angster as assistants. Army's Corps of Engineers and the Ordnance Dept, also buy specialized electronics equipment. Corps of Engineers procurement office is 226 W. Jackson Blvd. , Chicago (Col., Wendell P. Tower). Ordnance Dept, has 14 district offices — in Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, St. Louis, San Francisco, Springfield, Mass. All districts handle all contracts, so you don't have to go to any special one. Don't go to arsenals; they don't buy. Navy's electronics buying is done primarily by Bureau of Ships, but Bureau of Aeronautics is also heavy buyer of communications-radar , etc. To lesser extent. Bureau of Ordnance also buys electronics equipment. All are in Washington. Capt. W. H.: Beltz is electronics chief. Bureau of Ships; Capt. A, S. Born and Lt . Comdr. Mark S. Jones, Aeronautics; Capt. R. L. Adams and Capt. H. P. Weatherwax, Ordnance. Navy also buys replacements, spares at Electronic Supply Office, Great Lakes, 111. Air Force electronics procurement office is Air Materiel Command, WrightPatterson Air Base, Dayton, 0. Write attention Services Section, Procurement Division. Air Force also has procurement field offices in 7 major cities and you can get all information from any one of them: Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Detroit, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York. Make sure you get Air Force communications equipment catalog on Class 16 items; it lists electronics equipment Air Force uses. Brig. Gen. H. A. Shepherd is chief of Air procurement, with Col. T. J. Kennedy chief and Lt . Col. R. A. Green deputy chief, procurement division. Brig. Gen. P. W. Smith heads Dayton Materiel Command, Lt . Col. F. W. Jarek is chief of electronics procurement. Warning : In writing, don't address individual officers. They're liable to