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As Steve, Charles, and others pointed out, there was no officially-documented, organized policy requiring or encouraging destruction of pre-WW2 sets in the US, however, the practice was encouraged somewhat by certain media in the UK. Yes, Charles, most of the deliberate acts of destruction occurred 50 or 60 years ago and were carried out largely under the same rationalizations used by repair shops of recent years whose policy was to place "abandoned" sets which were unlikely to sell as "refurbished" models out to the curb and "neck" their CRT's. At the time, the sets were literally considered "hazardous waste" to a degree. In rare cases, however, according to legend at least, a few shops recognized the future historical significance of very early sets and merely cut off their line cords or otherwise disabled them in some semi-permanent (reversible by someone who knew how) manner before placing them in long-term storage.
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