Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-15

should remain inlthe' enterprise, be-
fore long parts would become a drug
on the market and that by October +
the makers Of complete sets would ac-
lively be soliciting. business. 4
That such Il situation would be a
reversal Of present conditions is In
dictated in the report of another large
supply house that 1t is two months
behind in filling its orders and word
from all parts of the country OF q
great shortage in apparatus. the
huge demand is ascribed to the praG-
tice of free broadcasting.
There are now 100000 receiving
sets in the United States, according to
the estimates Of several companies.
OF these 100000 were said to be in
the middle west, and $1,000 to $4,000,
according to varying estimates, in
Chicago.
Dealers declared that the sudden
ness of growth Of this infant industry
and the fact that the number OF
plants varies from day to day made it
impossible accurately to guage its pro-
portions. One dealer said that it was
impossible to estimate with my cer-
taintv the. extent of the demand. in=
asmuch as buyers in their eagerness
to get equipment as 500 as possible
are placing orders with dozens of
dealers at once. and purchasing Q
the first dealer who is ready to de-
liver. For that reason, it was stated,
what might seem to be a demand in
yolving $40, 900, 900 might resolve it
self into a demand involving $4,000
900.
Called sBootlegeers.n
There are more bootleggers in the
radio business than In the whiskey
business. . dealer asserted. "Peo-
pie get, hold of parts and sell them
for exorbitAnty prices. l have known
a single tube which is regularly sold
for IS to bring us. Some of these
spurious dealers come In and try to
bribe our clerks to get them parts"
An electrical supply house at To-
ledo. o., has begun to install what It
has announced will be one OF the most
complotefradio manufacturing plants
in the world. It proposes to employ
100 workers at tho outset and more
as the department IL enlarged, and
plans Q q daily capacity of 500 COM
plete radio receiving and transmitting
sets. In Toledo and Lucas county, u
was estimated, several thousand sets
are receiving daily weather, market
and other reports broadcast from va
rious cities throughout the country.
Six concerns are manufacturing
radio equipment in Cincinnati, O.
+. Ihere are eighteen regularly estab-
lished concerns In Chicago manufac-
turing radio equipment. aside from
many boys who assemble parts and
distribute the Z thus constructed
among their friends.
There are 3o4 companies In Mis-
souri, manufacturing radio supplies.
OF those eleven r in st. Louis. In
st. Louis attwelvc-year.old boy, TWEEN
ty-hve business men. several auto
mobile mechanics, n plumber, one
butcher and several high school pu7
pills, are making and selling radioNaup-
plies during their spare time.
About twenty-five boys are CON
Estrvcting and selling radio equipment
in Milwaukee, Wis. They sometimes
receiye $50 or higher for their ont
M. Ii Wa said. The large department
eterea 81 MilWaukee are handing seta
Ana one of them has large window
Trimmed % represent q family sit
ting around q room listening TO g
radio concert.
Dallas. Tex.sreported fourteen deal
err / n radio equipAen one OF them
which sold such supplies exclusively
having built Np its8 trade within the
last few months. Madison. Wis, m
ported that I new radio store has just
been opened there and il alreadS
WiAely natr0niled. M
Two new factories have just eheer
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