Word: kolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific Coast last week came frosts. Blighted were peaches, apricots, walnuts, plums, prunes, almonds, grapes, potatoes, and Kolster Radio. The frost on the crops was an act of Providence. The slump in Kolster Radio proceeded from a 1928 earnings statement that showed earnings of 20? a share. Kolster stock has been prominent on the Coast partly through the fact that Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels (TIME, Nov. 19) is chairman of its board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried...
More than 350 miles northward was the America, 21,000-ton steamship of the U. S. Lines, bound for Manhattan. Capt. George Fried, commanding, turned to the rescue. The America's radio compass (a Kolster) contradicted the reports of position sent by Capt. Favaloro, but Capt. Fried followed his compass. All night long he sailed against tumultuous waters. During that night the bridge of the Florida, with all navigating books and instruments, went overboard. Capt. Favaloro managed to keep a sextant. In the morning he took his bearings, radioed them to Capt. Fried. The master of the America calculated them...
...long sailed Capt. Fried. At nightfall his searchlights revealed the Florida dead ahead. A miracle had been accomplished by radio science. The Florida, listing sharply, with one rail under water, had been changing its position constantly because its engines were still slowly turning over. But Fried and his Kolster were in time...
...Kolster Radio...
...Kolster Radio Corp., Federal-Brandes Inc. (wireless communication equipment). International Telephone & Telegraph Co. recently bought control of Federal Telegraph. Hence it profits from Dr. Kolster's devices and knowledge...