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Show Santa Glaus Provided With Variety of Toys Cowboy and Policemen Replace G.I. Uniforms i Toyland, 1946 style, is geared to reproduction of America's peace-; time living, reproducing in purpose- ful miniature every phase of home- j making, building and road construe- j tion, . transportation, science, agriculture, agri-culture, fashion and art. Cowboys ; and policemen have staged a comeback come-back as juvenile heroes and minia- I . - v ? , l I ( ( $ f f - - i cures 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 J 250 million dollars, a 35 per cent : increase over 1945, are ready for Christmas distribution. The first i lines of rubber and steel playthings in four years will bring back such deeply missed favorites as rubber balls, balloons and animals, wheel toys, electric trains, movable eyes and voices for dolls, steel construction construc-tion sets, musical instruments, noisemakers and pop guns. Many new uses of plastic as well as a 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. Although Al-though volume in most lines is close to prewar levels, unprecendented demand de-mand is likely to create out-of-stock conditions in popular lines before Christmas eve. This will be due to the fact that in addition to pent-up demand for toys caused by wartime manufacturing restrictions, five million mil-lion extra children of toy age were added to the population during the war years (in comparison with the average of the preceding peacetime decade). |