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...article which it published six years ago, the Reader's Digest investigated 19 radio repairmen in Manhattan, found 17 dishonest. Has the situation improved...
After conducting similar tests, the trade sheet Radio Daily reported that the situation in Manhattan is now simplified: 20 out of 20 repairmen investigated proved to be dishonest...
Radio Daily's blast at radio repairmen set up an immediate echo. Last week New York City Councilman Stanley Isaacs threatened to introduce a long-contemplated bill forcing radio repairmen (like plumbers, electricians, etc.) to pass municipal license tests. And membership in the two-month-old Associated Radio Servicemen of N.Y.. Inc. (whose pious principle is "to see that the public gets a good deal") hopped from...
...long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
...country was also being visited by a plague of annoying and unannounced nickel, dime and dollar jumps in the price of all kinds of small goods and services. Restaurant prices were developing a habit of rising as much as 10? to 50? overnight. Some radio repairmen were charging more to peer into a receiving set than a physician asked for a sick call. It even cost more to go broke-the fee for filing bankruptcy papers in U.S. district courts went up from...