Cannot prove or disprove, but one book I have on Winchester states the M 21 was a great help in getting Winchester through the depression. It was a gun which the few people having funds would buy. Whether or not they made any money on them is really immaterial, the choice to build them was totally their's. Returns could have come in various ways. Money paid to NBC, CBS, ABC, EtAl does not return one thin dime "Directly", but do you know of a Company that doesn't advertise, & they expect it to "PayOff". Regardless of how much Mr olin "Loved" the 21, I seriously doubt he considered jeapordizing the Co to keep it in production. According to one account I read they "Suddenly Discovered" after some 25± years that if they charged it it's fair amount of overhead it had lost money. Funny thing was they immediately approximately tripled the price, but don't recall reading of the accounting department getting the Ax. Marlakey such as that I simply don't concern myself about.
