[Milsurplus] 19 set thread

[Hue Miller]

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From: "David Stinson" <arc5@ix.netcom.com>
> And we can prove that they did in fact influence at least
> one magazine- witness the resistance of QST to print anything
> relating to surplus.  They did it occasionally, but grudgingly.

That's a good point. This magazine was of course the high class
display window for new commercial equipment. The only surplus
type articles i recall were the "Hints and Kinks" items about
curing tuning backlash in the BC-312, and also maybe one about
moving the 40m band for better tuning rate. When you look thru
the photos in the operating section in back, however, you certainly
see a fair number of wartime radios still in service, well into the 1960s.

BTW, i saw a few paragraphs in an outdoor & hunting magazine the
from 1945, the other day, and it complained about surplus ammunition,
i mean pistol and shotgun ammunition, not HE or AP, being dumped at 
sea, so there were other people besides electronics or vehicle fans upset
about government waste or OUR money. These anecdotes of wastage 
certainly help me understand, if not totatally believe, the common story
that "industry had an agreement with the US Government, not to bring back
war surplus, because it would hurt the firms producing new material..."
Hue Miller