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Commentator Carter talked himself into trouble with C. I. O. unions. Pickets marched in front of Station WCAU (Philadelphia) where he did his broadcasting, and it was persistently rumored that his five-year-long association with his sponsor, the Philco Radio & Television Corp., would not outlast the contract then in effect. At the beginning of 1938 Newscaster Carter and Philco parted company. Promptly he was signed by General Foods to broadcast for Huskies and Post Toasties. Thereupon Philadelphia's C. I. O. Council passed a boycott resolution against General Foods products...
...been needed to make radio listening a completely sedentary occupation was elimination of the necessity for struggling up out of a comfortable chair to cross the room and tune another station. The eliminator made its appearance last week when at a dealers' and distributors' Chicago convention, Philco Radio & Television Corp. engineers demonstrated their new Mystery Control unit...
...wire connections to the receiving set, changes the receiver's tuning from station to station, raises and lowers volume. Selection is made by a gadget that looks like a telephone dial. The gadget can be carried indoors & out, works the receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which it is synchronized, does not permit playing games with a neighbor's radio...
...Many years ago F. Wallis Armstrong gave financial assistance to struggling John T. Dorrance. When John Dorrance formed Campbell Soup Co., the advertising agency of F. Wallis Armstrong Co. never had to worry about losing that fat account, though it did lose Philco Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices...
Unable to name the weak and treacherous employes RCA is supposed to have seduced, and unwilling to specify what secrets had been purloined, Philco nevertheless wailed: "-It has required the great-skill, invention, vigilance and effort successfully to develop and maintain such a business in the face of its highly competitive nature ... and particularly the competition of RCA ... by reason of its financial power and patent monopoly " By underhanded acts, complained Philco, RCA "is seeking further to extend and strengthen its domination and control of said industry...