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This article was written for the CRIMSON by Howard Aiken of Cruft Laboratory, assistant to Harry R. Mimno, assistant professor of Physics and Communication Engineering, who is conducting the experiments hereinafter mentioned...
...Cruft Laboratory's study of the ionosphere, which has been in abeyance since 1934 will be resumed as soon as authorization is issued by the Federal Communications Communion, as a result of the amendment this week to section 318 of the Communications Act. The ionosphere is that portion of the atmosphere which reflects radio waves and allows long range transmission...
After passing both the House and Senate, an amendment to the Communications Act, permitting the University experimental station at Cruft Laboratory to broadcast, was sent to the White House yesterday to await the signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who proposed the bill, stressed the value of the Cruft station for science. Previous to its forced cessation of activity, the laboratory made a continuous survey of atmospheric conditions and means to increase the distance of radio communication...
...Named for its founder in 1886, Charles Cruft. In 1891 Queen Victoria gave Cruft's the cachet which has made it Europe's greatest dog show by entering her collie and three pomeranians. Now 84 and probably the world's best-known dogman, Founder Cruft still manages the show, avoids partiality among breeds by keeping no dog of his own. Says he of dogs: "I admire them because they do not talk...