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...Four more manufacturers (Belmont, Webster, Muntz and the Television Equipment Corp.) broke ranks, joined Emerson, Celomat and Tele-tone in promising to make CBS color equipment. Tele-tone, with sets already in the works, said it would have quantity production by Jan. 1. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton in full-page newspaper ads: "CBS welcomes Tele-tone-the first set manufacturer to bring you color television...
...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
...square feet of space in a huge, 20-story Hudson River warehouse, and set up shop. As production boss, Harvey Pokrass finally built an assembly line that could turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular-tube sets and by developing cheaper cabinets. Remembering the PT-boat hulls molded from plywood, he got a PT-boat maker to turn out for Tele King "seamless" cabinets whose top and sides are molded from...
...Time. To market this ever-mounting production, Harvey lined up Manhattan's mammoth Macy's department store to take a big part of Tele King production by offering prices which enabled Macy's to undersell "name" brands (Tele King's price range: $179.95 for 12-inch table models, to $399.95 for a 19-inch console and $499.95 for a 16-inch player combination). Soon, Tele King made similar deals with the May Co., one of the biggest U.S. retail chains, and many another big store and appliance dealer...
...full year of 1950 Tele King expects to produce 250,000 sets, gross at least $30 million. Still growing, Tele King this week took over part of another floor of the warehouse and set up a new assembly line to add 300 more workers. By June it expects to boost production to 1,200 sets...