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...microphone stepped famed Inventor Lee de Forest. Said he: "On the night of Aug. 20, 1920, the first commercial radio broadcast station in all the world was opened. And every night and every day since that momentous beginning WWJ has maintained this service...
During its first three years, Seversky Aircraft did little but experiment. It developed such inventions of its founder as the mechanism generally used for mid-air refueling and the automatic bomb sight now adopted by the U. S. and Great Britain. In 1933 Inventor Seversky began toying with ambitious- amphibian ideas, produced a plane which could land on snow, water or land. By last year he had developed this chunky, all-metal, single-motored monoplane so well that in it he set a world speed record for amphibians (230.4 m.p.h...
Those who were responsible for Yosemite's management, revealed Inquisitor Schenker, had sold out in 1932 to Equity Corp., which the same year clever Wallace Groves had begun to piece together mainly from broken-down trusts (TIME, Aug. 10). For his 40,000 shares of Yosemite Inventor Kettering received in exchange 20,000 shares of Equity, which he later disposed of for $1 a share...
...Inventor Kettering know that Promoter Groves had managed to swap his 327,000 shares of Yosemite for 1,150,000 shares of Equity Corp. stock, asked SEC's counsel? The answer...
...Inventor: It wasn't very profitable...