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...National League's weakest team last week appeared to be the Cincinnati Reds. Their owner, Powel Crosley, spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak...
Owner of Mason's tower is Powel Crosley Jr.'s 500,000-watt Radio Station WLW, strongest broadcaster on earth. WLW pointed out that the people of Mason, if they wanted to install the proper apparatus, could probably snatch enough power out of the air to cook their meals, wash & iron their clothes, clean their rugs, run their radios...
Continuity Dept. The Crosley Radio Corporation Cincinnati, Ohio...
...Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw...
...Boston with a weak infield. Brooklyn and Cincinnati looked much as they did at the start of the season a year ago. Brooklyn had a new manager, Casey Stengel, who watched practice at Orlando in a cream and crimson striped shirt. Cincinnati had a new owner, Radio Manufacturer Powel Crosley Jr. (TIME...