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...sets in Germany, some 5,000,000 are equipped to receive short-wave broadcasts. Not generally known is the fact that the U. S. has quietly entered the short-wave news propaganda battle. Every day in the week for the past year and a half, NBC's 25-kilowatt W 3 XL, its power stepped up to the equivalent of some 150 kilowatts by a directional beam antenna, has sent in the direction of Germany's 5,000,000 shortwave receivers an hour of news, music and Americana calculated to reach Germans between eight and nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: For German Ears | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...miles up. The artificial display would be the same in fundamental principle (emission of light by electrically excited atoms) as natural auroras, or as the glow caused in neon lights by electric currents. The scientist pointed out that existing super-power installations, such as Cincinnati's 500-kilowatt WLW (see p. 66) or the Moscow station of equal power, were strong enough to induce glow discharges in the upper air which would be of immense value for studying changing movements and density of ions in the ionosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Auroras for Study | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Relay League's Radio Amateur's Handbook by Technical Expert Ross A. Hull. Recently Expert Hull began experimenting with television reception, assembled specially powerful and sensitive equipment to receive RCA-NBC television transmission in his Vernon cottage (near Hartford, Conn.). He temporarily rigged up a 2½-kilowatt, 4,400-volt pole transformer. Last week it killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Lethal Machine | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...supplied the needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when and if effectively established. Co-op rate for 100 kilowatt-hours per month is $5.07; D.E.C. sells 100 kilowatt-hours per month for $3.39. Co-op borrowed $2,000,000 from the Federal Government. It is a fact of irrelevance that D.E.C. paid a little over $2,000,000 in taxes to the Federal Government in 1937. . . . ED MOYLE (A TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Continued its squeeze on the public utility industry. The Federal Power Commission approved rates for Government-owned Bonneville Dam power: $14.50 a kilowatt year (a new unit of measure) for prime power, $9.50 for secondary power-lowest rates in the U. S., far under those that private companies can economically charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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