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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With hundreds of stations all on the same frequency, radio sets from one end of the country to the other began to squeak & squawk with interference. Secretary Herbert Hoover called a conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length...
...Nielsen Co.,'s Executive Vice-President Hugo L. Rusch, who is out to start a new and much better listener survey service for advertisers. Two hundred similar "Audimeters" will soon be placed in private homes and the Nielsen firm, Chicago marketing research organization, expects by the end of the year to have more than 5,000 spotted in radios throughout the country...
Since then streamlining has become the bugaboo of U. S. industrial designing. Popularizers like Norman Bel Geddes have made citizens visually speed-conscious, so that now even a refrigerator must look as if it is getting somewhere in a hurry. Up to the end of 1937 a total of 54 streamlined trains had been put on scheduled runs by 17 lines. Last week the two major Eastern lines, New York Central and Pennsylvania, announced that on June 15 they would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will...
...Londoner hears the words "Covent Garden" he thinks of 1) vegetables, 2) opera. For Great Britain's largest garden-produce market and Great Britain's Royal Opera House lie within a stone's throw of each other on the fringe of London's fashionable West End. And both institutions have the same name. Historically, the vegetables got there first, for the name Covent Garden derives from an old convent garden which occupied the site in the days of many-wived King Henry VIII. Centuries later, in 1732, one John Rich built a theatre where the Royal...
...Simmons has put himself on record, however, as having "no suspicion of any dishonesty, illegality or criminal practice" until the Exchange accountants went into the Whitney firm at the end of February...