April 1947 Radio News
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early
electronics. See articles from
Radio & Television News, published 1919-1959. All copyrights hereby
acknowledged.
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After World War II had been
won, the War Assets Administration made good on the government's promise to reward
citizens for performing their patriotic civil duty whereby they participated in
the collection of recyclable material made of plastic, glass, rubber, metal, and
cloth. Magazines and newspapers had frequent coverage of bottle, metal, and tire
drives showing children pulling Radio Flyer wagons loaded to overflowing with such
items gathered from trash piles and soliciting neighborhood residents for anything
that could be spared. Waste of precious resources was a thing of shame. "Use it
up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without" was the slogan de jour. Ham radio operators
contributed mightily to the war effort by donating and/or selling meters, tubes,
transformers, capacitor tuning banks, and other items for the repair of battleground
radios.
War Assets Administration Advertisement
Manufacturers
Wholesalers
Jobbers ...
to obtain this desirable material get in touch with your WAA approved Distributor!
Much of the huge inventory of electronic tubes and equipment, declared surplus
by the armed forces, has been allocated to approved distributors for disposal.
The names and addresses of our distributors are listed here. They are equipped
to serve your needs and will know what is immediately available.
These are the Approved Distributors Appointed by the War Assets Administration
to Serve You:
American Condenser Co.
4410 Ravenswood Avenue
Chicago 11, Illinois
Automatic Radio Mfg. Co., Inc.
122 Brookline Avenue
Boston 15, Massachusetts
Belmont Radio Corporation
3633 So. Racine Avenue
Chicago 9, Illinois
Communication Measurements Laboratory
120 Greenwich Street
New York 6, New York
Cole Instrument Co.
1320 So. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, California
E. F. Johnson Company <----- I worked there - Very smart
people!
206 Second Avenue, S. W.
Waseca, Minnesota
Electronic Corporation of America
353 West 48th Street
New York 19, New York
Electro-Voice, Inc.
Carroll & Cecil Streets
Buchanan, Michigan
Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation
76 Ninth Avenue
New York 11, New York
Essex Wire Corporation
1601 Wall Street
Ft. Wayne 6, Indiana
General Electric Company
Building 267-1 River Road
Schenectady 5, New York
General Electronics Inc.
1819 Broadway
New York 23, New York
Hammarluna Mfg. Company, lnc.
460 West 34th Street
New York 1, New York
Hoffman Radio Corporation
3761 South Hill Street
Los Angeles 7, California
Hytron Radio & Electronics Corporation
76 LaFayette Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Majestic Radio & Television Corporation
125 West Ohio Street
Chicago 10, Illinois
National Union Radio Corporation
57 State Street
Newark 2, New Jersey
Navigation Instrument Co., Inc.
2007 Capitol Avenue
Houston 3, Texas
Newark Electric Co., Inc.
242 West 55th Street
New York 19, New York
Radio Parts Distributing Company
128 W. Olney Road
Norfolk 10, Virginia
Raytheon Manufacturing Company
60 East 42nd Street
New York 17, N. Y.
Smith-Meeker Engineering Company
125 Barclay Street
New York 7, New York
Southern Electronic Company
512 St. Charles Street
New Orleans 12, Louisiana
Standard Arcturus Corporation
99 Sussex Avenue
Newark, New Jersey
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
Emporium, Pennsylvania
Technical Apparatus Company
165 Washington Street
Boston 8, Massachusetts
Tobe Deutschmann Corporation
863 Washington Street
Canton, Massachusetts
Tung-Sol Lamp Works, Inc.
95 Eighth Avenue
Newark 4, New Jersey
Electronics Division
War Assets Administration
Offices located at: Atlanta Birmingham Boston Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland
Dallas Denver Detroit Fort Worth Helena Houston Jacksonville Kansas City, Mo. Little
Rock, Los Angeles Louisville Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Omaha Philadelphia
Portland, Ore. Richmond St, Louis Sail Lake City San Antonio San Francisco Seattle
Spokane Tulsa
Posted July 11, 2024 (updated from original post
on 10/28/2016)
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