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...Attempts to iron out production "bugs" and smooth the flow of raw materials. (To succeed at this, Jimmy Byrnes will have to work hard on WPB...
Torrents of Tubes. WPB offered the farmer some relief. Battery production was up to 425,000 a month-enough to supply each farmer with a battery and a half for his set this year. But farmers were using their radios about two hours more daily than ever before, and would need more batteries than ever. Moreover, their battery requirements were already so far behind that production would be a long time catching...
...WPB had also authorized manufacturers to make 2,000,000 tubes a month (half of normal consumption) for civilian radios. This output (due next month) should keep the home front glowing, WPB figured, if no family operated more than one set (half of the 30,000,000 U.S. radio homes own three-quarters of the radios...
This predicament was no surprise to WPB's Radio & Radar Division. It had reduced types of tubes from 600 to 114, devised new lines of other parts designed to save critical materials. But it had not been able to give manufacturers high enough priorities to get enough materials to make the parts...
Since Pearl Harbor the industry has expanded over 200 times. Diamond-cutting methods now used by most manufacturers have speeded up production, cut down waste. The best crystals come from inland Brazil, but WPB is pushing U.S. exploration. The Japs, incidentally, in 1930 bought up a tidy supply of quartz crystals which were an unwanted byproduct of California gold mining. Every Jap communications set captured so far has been quartz-equipped...