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Show I Santa Glaus Provided I With Variety of Toys Cowboy and Policemen Replace G.I. Uniforms Toyland, 1946 style, is geared to reproduction of America's peacetime peace-time living, reproducing in purposeful purpose-ful miniature every phase of home-making, home-making, building and road construction, construc-tion, transportation, science, agriculture, agri-culture, fashion and art. Cowboys and policemen have staged a comeback come-back as Juvenile heroes and minia- turcs of military equipment are keyed to the armed forces' training programs. New toys have been tested test-ed by children for fun appeal, age Interest and safety. More than 100,000 different kinds of playthings with a retail value of 250 million dollars, a 35 per cent increase over 1945, are ready for Christmas distribution. The first lines of rubber and steel playthings j in four years will bring back such deeply missed favorites as rubber balls, balloons and animals, wheel toys, electric trains, movable eyes i and voices for dolls, steel construction construc-tion sets, musical instruments, noisemakers and pop guns. Many new uses of plastic as well as a I j bumper crop of wood, cardboard and paper toys also will be represented repre-sented in Santa's 1946 pack. Special requests to Santa Claus will call for early shopping. Al- j though volume in most lines is close to prewar levels, unprecendented de-mud de-mud is likely to create out-of-stock conditions in popular lines before Christmas eve. This will be due to I the fact that in addition to pent-up j demand for toys caused by wartime manufacturing restrictions, Ave mil- lion extra children of toy age were j added to the population during the war years (in comparison with the average of the preceding peacetime i decade). |