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...stroke solved one of radio's most persistent problems: how to sell farmers who have no electric current and dislike hauling their batteries to town for recharging. Last June President McDonald heard of two Iowa farm boys near Sioux City who had worked out a miniature windmill-generator. Radioman McDonald went to see Brothers John & Gerhardt Albers, helped them form a company, contracted for their entire output. Since then Zenith has sold no less than 200,000 farm sets equipped with "Winchargers...
...does Zenith's president journey inland. Since 1929 he has lived winter & summer on his 185-ft. yacht Mizpah. In winter he ties up in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching...
...Radioman James W. Hodges, who learned his trade in a Kansas City drug store, was ordered to send out his first SOS signal just four minutes after the Dixie grounded. It was weak because the antenna had blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service...
Thanks to Radioman Dailey, warships were swarming to the rescue before the Macon's stern touched water. Out of the dirigible's lockers had been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized...
...Captain Willmott, who died the evening before the disaster, had called Alagna "an agita tor and a vengeful person," had ordered Rogers to dismiss Alagna at the end of the voyage. When U. S. Attorney Martin Conboy who was conducting a Grand Jury investigation of his own, heard this, Radioman Alagna, already held as a mate rial witness, had his bail raised. It took two days to get the story straight: The extent of Alagna's agitation was to strike for better pay once just before sailing time. The extent of his "revenge" was to complain of the food...