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...picture tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration and color fidelity. CBS, Philco, Du Mont, Paramount and others are working on tri-color receiver tubes of their own design. None of them has yet been proved in field tests...
...Goldmark's system won the color decision, a loud, angry cry went up from the TV manufacturers and dealers who saw a threat to the millions invested in black & white sets. Emerson and Pilot hurried to join RCA in the Chicago court test; Dr. Allen B. Du Mont went on TV over his own network to demonstrate a CBS color wheel (for a 30-inch screen not yet on the market) and ridiculed the CBS system as giving "a Model-T type color picture." In full-page newspaper ads, Hallicrafters charged that "this ill-advised action...
...more tanks & guns, 3) warships. An appeal would be made to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes. At the same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty of bite...
...caught profiteers: "Only one out of every six corporations that earned any income paid an excess profits tax . . . No statistician will ever figure out how many corporations escaped E.P.T. by the simple device of expensing the excess." In the same vein, television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, chairman of the National Conference of Growth Companies, warned: "I resent the threat of my Government taking legislative action that will stigmatize [our] profits . . . under a completely false label ... If this fictional . . . legislation goes through I should feel that it would be my duty to myself, my company and its stockholders...
Other businessmen, cheered by the election results, were also taking up arms. Television Manufacturer Allen B. Du-Mont gathered representatives of 62 "growth" companies whose profits have doubled between 1946 and 1949, hence would be hardest hit by any tax which regards recent profits as "excessive." Du-Mont's group organized the National Conference of Growth Companies, plugged for a flat levy on earnings instead of an excess profits tax. Barring this, they wanted a tax base which would not penalize their sudden growth...