Radio: According to Huth

For years to come the world is likely to depend on the U.S. as the supplier of radio sets and tubes.

This cheerful hint to the U.S. radio industry was offered last week as a serious opinion by a man entitled to have one—Arno Huth, encyclopedic international radio investigator of Switzerland's Geneva Research Center (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942).

Huth calculated that immediately after the war the U.S. would want eight to ten million receiving sets; Europe, five million; Latin America, two to three million; Asia, two million ("but Asia's demand may skyrocket within a...