Word: powells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every time Powel Crosley Jr. gets sidetracked, he builds the side line into a main line. Having built five main lines, he appeared last week about ready to shunt into a sixth...
...Powel Sr. wanted Powel Jr. to follow him into law. But young Crosley liked to tinker with automobiles. By 1906 he was a private chauffeur (although his father was a prosperous attorney). By 1909, at 23, he was president of an automobile manufacturing company. It was his idea to make a low-priced, six-cylinder car, but bad financing wrecked the venture and for eleven years he drifted from job to job, automobiles to advertising to gadgets...
...Powel Jr. wanted to buy a radio for Powel III. Asked to pay $130 for a one-tube set, he found he could buy parts and make one himself for $35. Result was Crosley Radio Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, now approximately fourth largest U.S. radio producer. From the vocation of making radios to the avocation of radio broadcasting was a short shunt and the upshot was station WLW, most powerful in the world along with Moscow's RVI. WLW sends out such big charges (500,000 watts) that neighbors report hearing hillbilly bands in their drainpipes and lighting electric...
...From his own profession, advertising, came the first nomination of Representative Bruce Barton of Manhattan for President of the U. S. In Advertising & Selling, Publicist Harford Powel quoted Mr. Barton's vigorous advice to Indiana's Republican State Convention that Republicans must again win the confidence of all classes of people (TIME. July 11). Said Publicist Powel: "He is the only man in politics with a radio voice that you could back against the voice of President Roosevelt. . . . The grand strategy, if you want to beat the New Deal, is to find a man who can deserve...
Four years ago the Federal Radio Commission (now the Federal Communications Commission) encouraged an experiment. That experiment, and its results so far, have landed FCC in a tough spot. Under a six-month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his Cincinnati station (WLW) from the U. S. maximum of 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts. Reason: to find out how much radio service the listener might gain (from the power boost) and lose (through interference with smaller stations). Enterprising Broadcaster Crosley spent $396,287 on his 500-kw. transmitter...