Quiet, Please

FACTS & FIGURES

Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price: $2.95.

Join the Enemy. The Interstate Commerce Commission ended the long fight over the Pullman sleeping car service by approving the plan of 56 railroads to buy it. The price: $40,202,482. Railroader Robert R. Young, who had tried to buy the sleeper service, said that his railroads would join the other 56.

Higher. The Packard Motor Car Co. boosted auto prices from $75 to $224 a car. Reason: pinched by material shortages, Packard lost $1,148,172 during the first quarter of the year, saw no hope of increasing production enough in the near future to put it into the black without a price rise.

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