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Died. Powel Crosley, 82, Cincinnati lawyer, early radio enthusiast, father of President Powel Crosley Jr. of Crosley Radio Corp.; in Cincinnati...
...their customers to build up power consumption. At the forefront of the expansion have been General Electric, Kelvinator, General Motors (Frigidaire), Westinghouse. Servel's Electrolux has led the gas field. During the Depression many a smaller manufacturing concern has added electric refrigerators as a profitable sideline. Examples: Crosley Radio Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co. (radios), Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments)-all concentrating on the low-price field. In addition, a large number of independent companies have mushroomed throughout the land, usually buying and assembling the parts. Refrigerator men who have grown up with the industry say that these newcomers are spoiling...
...Crosley Anachronism...
TIME of May 25 carries an advertisement with historical background for The Crosley Radio Corp. Josephine is represented having a little marital discussion with Napoleon about his Moscow campaign. I wasn't there with a Crosley but Marie Louise of Austria and not Josephine, was Napoleon's wife then...
Napoleon divorced Josephine in 1809, retreated from Moscow in 1812. Hereafter, let Crosley Radio exercise more care in preparing advts for historically-minded TIME-readers...