The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-11-25
Behind the Scenes
In American Business
By Iohn Croddock

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year, many of us who did our
shopping and mailing at the
last minute learned that our
gifts and cards were not deliv-
cred until way after Christmas.
This year storekeepers from
nearly every city and large town
in the country had their buy
erS in the big central markets
as early as May to be sure that
their suppliers could deliver
the goods" for Christmas. Now,
they've got the merchandise
and they've joined the cam
paign-not to sell more, but to
assure their own customers that
gifts won't be caught in a last
minute transportation and man
power bottleneck. Besides, they
are able to give the early shop
pers the benefit of large and
new assortments. The post Of
flee has set a deadline - Dec.
10 - before which last-minute
gifts must be mailed to guar
antee delivery by Dec. Is.
E~LECTRONICS CLOTHES
TESTER-There's hardly a day
goes by in which we don't hear
of some new development III
the field of electronics. Servant
electrons now have been har-
messed for obtaining vital sta
tiStics as to the warmth giving
or isulating qualities of Army
clothing.
This is done by an %electronic
potentiometer developed in the
Philadelphia laboratories of the
Brown Instrument division of
Minneapolis Honeywell Regula-
tor Co. The Army Quartermas-
ter Corps has found that the
instrument speeds and makes
more accurate the recording OF
body temperatures, often as low
as 40 degrees below zero.
All readings are made by dir
ect contact with several parts
of soldier volunteers bodies.
Thermocouple functions are
connected to the body, under
the clothing being tested. Gables
run from the functions to the
electronic potentiometer where
the body temperatures are pick
ed up and recorded within three
seconds of each contact.
THINGS TO ~COME-Synthe-
tic rope made of woven plastics
said to be more flexible than
hemp rope with good resistance
to fatigue and the effects Of
weather. Paper shower stalls
made of reinforced paper board
with a baked-on enamel finish. .
Low price hearing aids of a
ready-to-wear unit, including
tubes, microphones and bat
teries, selling for $40 complete.
Transparent battery cells OF
celluloid that will facilitate
checking the condition of stor-
age batteries in postwar cars. -.
Heat sealing tapes to bind
seams, garment labels, and en-
blemS to cloth. "A packable
four-room house that can be
folded up and transported any
where a big truck can go.
POSTWAR FARM MARKET
Alert manufacturers and their
distributors are placing consid-
cradle emphasis in postwar
planning upon the huge poten-
tial farm market, and right
fully so. Extensive research al
ready made indicates that the
farm market, after the war, Oh
fers greater sales opportunities
for many products than urban
centers.
With farm income running at
record levels, industry planners
point out that a good proportion
of this money is being saved
For example, a recent study
shows that during the past two
years deposits in banks OF 70
farm states have almost doub-
led.
Because of the unavailibility
of materials and supplies, the
average farmer is unable to
spend most of his money. Thus
he has been paying off debts
putting excess funds in the
bank, and buying war bonds.
The pent-up demand for farm
equipment after the war will be
enormous because of the war
time wear and tear upon exist
ing rural machinery.
After the war, the farmer
should continue, for some time
to have a high income because
of the probable heavy exports OF
agricultural commodities, mgr
prices and lower operating costs
resulting from a larger supply
of farm labor and more efficient
machinery.
AssEMBLY-LINE PRECISION
American mass productlor
techniques are applied in FIELDS
requiring even more precision
and special training than op-
teal glass and fine Watchnak-
ing.
For example, at the end Of
1910, a handful of engineers
from the Eclipse-Pioneer dlVls-
ion of Bendix Aviation Corpor-
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