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...brick-&-concrete structures on a 50-acre plot have been placed a collection of specially designed radio instruments. Dials and switches are strung along on racks as in a power station. Headphone connections are scattered on tables. Three Diesel engines run 50-kilowatt generators. Upstairs are sleeping quarters with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil...
...volunteer lower rates. Last week acrimonious hearings were held before the Public Service Commission on the proposal of the New York Edison, Brooklyn Edison, United Electric Light & Power. Bronx Gas & Electric and New York & Queens Electric Light & Power to reduce the domestic rate from 7¢ to 5¢ per kilowatt hour but to add a 60¢ charge to every monthly bill for "meter service." Such a rate cut would lop $5,390,000 off the power company's annual income. The meter charge, however, would increase the price of electricity to 57% of the consumers. A consumer at the reduced rates...
...first principle of utility use is that the small consumer . . . should receive the greatest protection and consideration." The New York Real Estate Board entered objections. Mayor James John Walker ordered his law officers to fight the change before the Public Service Commission, to demand a rate of 4¢ per kilowatt hour and no meter charge...
Monthly charges for 38 kilowatt hours of electric current, a small-home average, produced by private companies in the U. S. cities...
...Moscow station, with 100-kilowatt power, outranks in potency any in the U. S., broadcasts Communist propaganda in German, English, French, Swedish, Polish and Rumanian which can be heard in all those countries-though but faintly in England. Rumania alone, being in constant fear of a Soviet attack to recover Bessarabia (which Rumania seized from Russia after the War), has installed an anti-Red broadcasting station. Whenever watchful officials of this station hear Moscow broadcasting in Rumanian they turn loose their own station on the same wave length and go BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...