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...will be able to buy some new radio sets for Christmas. So manufacturers promised last week, after OPA boosted ceilings on radio parts. But no consumer would have to pay more than the 1942 prices. So OPAdministrator Chester Bowles promised. The increases, said he, will be absorbed by distributors and dealers. To encourage production of cheap sets, the biggest boost (15%) goes on radios wholesaling for less than $11; the lowest (10½%) to sets wholesaling from...
...This boost came only after a long wrangle between the parts manufacturers and OPA. Price increases had first been granted about six weeks ago, but radiomen found them too low, decided to stop shipping parts until they got more. By almost doubling the original increase, OPA made the manufacturer "reasonably happy...
...number of radios which will be available by Christmas range all the way from 600,000 to 3,000,000 sets. Best guess: probably below a million. The industry grumbled that this will be far less than the demand, blamed OPA for holding out too long on its ceiling boost. OPA cracked back: the industry had been so slow sending in figures on which OPA could base prices that OPA had to go out and get some of them itself...
...Public Be Damned. With a rueful bow to the powerful cotton-bloc lobby, the Department of Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...
...Attend to sundry pressing business mat ters. Among them: the sale to M-G-M of the movie rights to Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...