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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...
...professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University, has made a tidy fortune for himself by inventing the super-regenerative and superheterodyne radio circuits. For the last 25 years he has been working on the problems of static, interference, tube noises and fading. Some time ago, in an effort to get perfectly clear reception, he devised a system of frequency modulation in the transmitter. According to standard broadcasting technique, which relies on amplitude modulation, this was heresy...
...this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.) are underway and others (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Washington, Milwaukee) are scheduled to get going soon. And some admirers of the Armstrong system predict that by next Christmas most radio purchasers within the 100-mile range of a station will insist on double-duty sets (both ordinary and Armstrong receptions...
...diplomatic breach between England and France by contemning France's role in the London Locarno Conference. Excerpt: "The position of France is as usual that of a bad-tempered vixen of a woman who up to a point has discovered that merely by making herself unpleasant she can get poor male things to do anything she wants...
...Omaha, Neb. a sign painter named Oscar ("Wiggie") Wiggenjost, whose wife Helen had flounced out of the house with the haughties, hired Skywriter Joe Jacobson to try to get her back. Across seven miles of sky, in letters half a mile high, Airman Jacobson skywrote: "Wiggie loves Helen." The unfeeling wind smudged the message into illegibility, and Wife Helen kept...