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...more river to cross. He had stood trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago on charges of violating the Lea Act, a law designed specifically to keep Petrillo from forcing radio stations to hire more musicians than they need. The station in this case was Chicago's one-kilowatt independent, WAAF...
...James Watt, of steam-engine and kilowatt fame. "At least," says canny Sir Robert, "we never got any of his money...
Last week the first round went to the trumpeter. In Chicago, Federal District Judge Walter LaBuy threw out U.S. charges against Petrillo for calling a strike at station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent which had refused to double its union staff of record librarians (TIME, June 10). The Lea act, ruled the judge, violated the1st, 5th and 13th Amendments. Cried imperial Caesar with pious fervency: "Thank God for the federal courts...
...Baruch, U.S. representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, a group of scientists announced last week that atomic power for industrial use would cost only 23% more than power from coal at the current U.S. East Coast price of $7 a ton to power companies. A 75,000-kilowatt pile of the Hanford type, adapted for power production and using natural uranium, could be built...
Question for the Future. Italians were trying to help themselves. The nation's heavy industry was at a near 80% of capacity; rail transport was approaching normal; repaired harbors were handling a swelling flow of exports-$70,000,000 since Jan. 1; electric kilowatt-hours in the first four months this year were one million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h...