Word: orr
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Hitler v. Ike. ORRadio's founder-and a pioneer in U.S. tapemaking-is John Herbert Orr. 46, onetime radio-station owner. While serving as a major and chief radio engineer on General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff during World War II, Orr, like other radio experts, was amazed at the lifelike quality of Nazi broadcasts of Hitler's speeches. They had none of the distortions of speeches rebroadcast from the wire recorders then used...
When the Allies captured Radio Luxembourg. Orr found out the secret: the Germans were using a "Magnetophon"' recorder with a magnetic tape far superior to familiar paper tapes or wire. The recording of a speech by Hitler was erased from a captured tape and a speech of Ike's recorded on the same tape for rebroadcasting. But the erasure was muffed and, in the middle of Ike's talk. Hitler's voice broke in loudly. Orders quickly came to manufacture some new tape. Orr tracked down Dr. Fritz Pflaumer, who had developed the original magnetic tape...
Unlimited Market. Back in Opelika after war's end, Orr set up shop with six employees to make the improved tape. He invested $250,000 realized from the sale of Opelika's radio station WJHO and other holdings, sold stock to friends by incorporating in 1950, raised another $246,675 in 1953 by a public offering of 149,500 shares of stock. After licking production problems, he developed a new tape coating (Ferro-Sheen) with unusually high fidelity. This caught the eye of the Ampex Corp., a maker of wire recorders and other electronic equipment, which had gone...
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DOROTHY M. ORR...