The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 28, 1946, Image 7
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WEST ClIKTOH SOCItL tHD PERSONAL NEWS
Mr. >1111 Mrs. D. M. Sanders, Mrs. Curry and daughter ot Charlotte, N.
Rodolph Barker and children, Mr. C„ and Mrs. W. C. ‘Gilmer ot Sum
ter, Patsy, recently visited Mr. and
Mrs. Telmedge Sanders In SparUn-
Mrs. John E. Ivey and daughter of
Laurens, visited Mr. and Mrs. Bre
vard, Patterson Monday.
Pvt and Mrs. Jack Griffin of Ware
Shoals, spent the j*eek-end with Mr.
and Mis. Clarence Thomas In Whlt-
Mrs. Betty Lawson
Greenville Saturday.
daughter, Mrs, R. P. Harris, an<
Harris. Mfk Harris returned
Anchor Friday.
StUetOn”
Miss- Gayneli Barbery spent the
week-end with relatives in Simpson-
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Don’t Blame Your Dealer
if You Can’t Get
G-E Appliances and Radios
It’s not the dealer’s fault. We don’t think it’s our fault.
Maybe it’s nobody’s fault. But here’s what happened:
Augusts, Ga., were week-end guests
of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. MoGInnU.
children
' Mrs. X
liinnlc IXidd of Hickory
visiting her daughter,
4SX‘
and Mrs.' Neiffer -
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Quinn and
family of Anderson, have moved
near Clinton.
Mrs. G. F. Downs and Dad Arnold
Here’s how fast G. E. and its affiliated companies .were making and shipping things for you:
OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
On hood Dec. 31,1945
IRONS
' 60,440
67,564
85,968
■2*S day*’ production
‘clocks
181,998
177,681
256,038
2!< day*’ productioa
REFRIGERATORS
12,755
17,577
28,432
4 day*’ productiop
WASHERS
,3,068
4,672
6,874
4)5 day*’ production
RANGES
3,056
8,973
8,996
3 day*’ production
radios v ;
TOASTERS
j 85
5,129
312
9,401
.2,386
day*’ production
2698 'J&Z5ZZ5Z
Oo. toproMt
Out of ffc* 2,485,'138 qppOenoM manufactimd in 1944 and 1945, G*n*rof Svcfric shipped 98%.
AFTER the war ended, we weren’t able 98 per cent of thoee we'd built since
ax to get back into production of some reconversion began were out of our
appliances as eoon as we had hoped, factopee. Meet of them were in the
and production rates weren’t as high hands of users,
as we had hoped. A number of unfore- Then, on January 16,1946, our plan ta
seen things like material shortagee made were doeed by the strike. Not a single
But there ware only 120 days be- or assembled there since. And, because
tweenV-d Day and December 31,1945, our warehouses are practically empty,
and in thoee 120 days we partly recon- your dealer won’t be able to obtain
’Dming the yearwetu
re ready, waiting to be set in
heae factors will help us ti
even; faster job then we did in the
months before the strike.
But we can’t pick up production quite
where we left off. Production lines
are too complicated for that A great
many things have been dislocated by
the strike.
When the strike is over, and the
refrigerators and toasters and radios
you’ve been waiting for begin to come
off the lines again, we'll get them into
Hands of our dealers just as fast as we
can. 'Ihey’U .be competitive in price.
They’ll be General Electric qiality.
So, pleiee don’t be impatient .with,
your dealer-or with us.
GENERAL ® ELECTRIC