Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1945 — Page 33
“Attitude, Material Damage to Industries.
Editor's Note: Dr. Hans
Whipple got from him a veview of present industrial Japan. ; By DR. HANS TIEDEMANN ; TOKYO, Nov. 28.—Japan’s industry is still groggy from { the shock of surrender and the insupportable strain of the last few months of the war, Her factories are idle and it 1! is almost useless to look for any sign of revival despite efI! forts of the American military government to encourage Some of the reasons for this situation are psychological ad some material. First, the Japanese are so stunned by the changed conditions in their country that they cannot make up their minds to | go to work. To most of them the obstacles loom so { lack courage to start anew, "| These obstacles are mainly: 1. A great number of workmen | lost their homes in the vicinity of | bombed factories and a great part
conditions in
as coal and coke, offers. a tremendous problem. Practically no shipving’ space is available.
1 i of Japan's population is displaced. a =u ® 4 stock is de- | 2 WHERE workers re still for- RAILROAD sussing Kh i oa
| tunate enough to have homes their which are essential for rebuilding the country. With less than 20 per cent of Japan's surface being arable land, the foodstuff situation cannot be
crops since 1909. Sufficient lumber also is not
These companies thelr products in those countries |! and finished them in Japan. This refers especially to the pulp, paper and sugar industries. 4. One of the most serious prob- || lems 1s raw materials, Most of | Japan's raw, materials had to be im- .. This was the case with || her cotton textile industry, alumi- || num and most of the other metal
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i! industries. necessity. If he does not work he s 8 = will starve. The one-time indus- || THERE IS now a drastic. short | ¢ria] worker, on the other hand, has || age of salt in the country even had a vacation for a long time and if for household purposes, not to speak found it much “easier to live on
|| of the chemical industry for which || salt 1s one of the basic ray ma- '{ terials, Hides and wool are prac- {| tically: mon-existent items in Japan. The only real home industry |work. of Japan is silk. {i Areas planted with mulberry trees it have’ been so drastically reduced during the war in favor of foodstuffs that little silk yarn can be expected during the next few years. 5. Another difficult problem: is
should give all possible assistance.
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Anti-Nazi Engineer Says Hopelessness Due to Mental
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(C. R. ISAACS IN NEW POST HERE
Directs Marketing Service For Sidener, VanRiper. - Charles’ R. Isaacs has been appointed director of marketiff and
merchandising service at Sidener & VanRiper, Inc. Mr, Isaacqypreviously
had been merchandise manager of the retail division of Marshall Welles Co.
Since. 1942 he @ has been director } of material - control and sales manager of Elee- Dan tronfc Laboraio- " ries here. He is a Mr. Isaacs
age pay-rolls nearly million. The figures are cited by
increases.
charges of excessive war profits and union demands for large wage
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member of the American Marketing Association, the Market Research club of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Advertising club.
Lt. Col. Pete DePaolo his returned to the Casite Corp. of Hastings, Mich., as an engineer speclalist after having served on an Amerfcan military mission in Switzer. land. He was in Indianapolis this
against peacetime’s $432 G. M. officials in answering union
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The 10,000 also sold quickly and steadily.’
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loans over a five-year period and $4,000,000 a year in treasury -subsidies, for urban redevelopment, the postwar words for slum ‘clearance.
The main idea is to stimulate private industry.
—1000,000 & year for -five years for
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Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23~When can & man find & place to
why aren’t new dwellings being built? Congress
Housing Bil
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and the national housing agency will soon be up to their ears in finding the answers to those questions as a contribution to getting the country back to work for prosperity and contentment,
banking and currency committee will begin Tues~
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov, Be Business in Indiana declined
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1. Provide $500,000,000 in federal
2. Appropriate $22,000,000 a year for four years in subsidies for publie housing construction, and $5.
rural housing. 3. Set up two phases of investigation—$2,500,000 a year for five years of federal research; $5,000,000 a year, same period, for aid to city surveys. . The NHA people don't say so, but congress would like to know whether builders are holding back until the excess profits tax ends Jan. 1, whether price ceilings are keeping
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Dave Gerard, Hoosier cartoonist of Crawfordsville, who regularly hits Collier's and Saturday Evening Post, has just completed a series of cartoons for the Banquet Ice Cream and Milk Co. via Caldwell-Bake Co. » . The series humorously glorifies Banquet’s new square milk bottles and will be used in newspapers, An adaptation of the series for billboards also is being made.
The sound film, “More Power to You,” will be presented by the Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc. at the club meeting next Thursday at the" Indianapolis Athletic club. The story touches on every phase of the Public Service Co.'s operation, A discussion of packaging and point-of-sale display by Mr. A, W. ‘Voorhis, “advertising manager of Kingan & Co., will be the feature of the advertising practice course at Butler university next Thursday.
Chemists “Agetropic Distillation” will be discussed by Dr. F. A. Karnatz, Reilly Tar & Chemical Corp, Indianapolis, at the luncheon meeting of the American Chemical society Tuesday in the Warren hotel,
Scientech George Hine, engineer with Russell B. Moore & Associates, will discuss “Engineering Experiences in Foreign Countries” at the luncheon | meeting of the Scientech club Monday in the Claypool hotel.
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~ Marketers to Meet The American Marketing associa tion will hold its annual meeting Monday, Dec. 10, at the Severin Hotel. The principal speakers and their subjects include: “How Manufacturers Spend Their Market Research Dollars” by Willlam W. Heusner, director of marketing research, Pabst Sales Co.; “Major Marketing and Selling Problems of 1946,” by Donald M. Hobart, presi. dent of the American Marketing Assn, and director of research, Curtis Publishing Co.; “Top Exeeutives and Marketing Problems,” by Earl Bunting, president of the O'Sullivan Rubber Cop. and chair. man, market research committee, National Association of Manufacturers; “National Income Changes and Their Significance in Post-War Selling,” by Everett R. Smith, director of research, Macfadden Publi | cations; and “Measuring Your PostWar Market,” by Vergil D, Reed, associate director, marketing research, J. Walter Thompson Co. Also included on the program is a report on “Income Changes During the War Period in Indiana,” a ‘special project of the Indiana chapter of the American Marketing association. At the dinner meeting there will be a panel discussion on “Selling Problems of Reconversion.” The participants will include Lyman L. Hill, director of Sales Research, Servel, Inc, as chairman; Jokn T. American
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OHIO FIRM BOUGHT BY CURTISS-WRIGHT
Times Special NEW. YORK, Nov, 23.—CurtissWright Corp. has acquired the Marquette Metal Products Co. Cleveland plant officials said today. The Cleveland firm has manufactured precision parts and assemblies for the automotive and aviation industries since 1920, It is the second company Cur-tiss-Wright has purchased recent ly. Late in 1944; the L. G. 8. Spring
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