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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio Tubes. National Union Radio Corp., a $16,000,000 company, was formed to unite the Sonatron Tube Co., Televocal Corp., Marathon Co. and the Magnatron Co. The combined capacity of these companies (to which others may be added) is said to be between 25 and 35 million radio tubes a year. Fifty million tubes were sold in 19:8; 80 million are expected to be sold in 1929. In tube production the new merger will thus be a rival for Radio Corp. with which it has reciprocal patent licensing arrangements...
...impressive occasion. At the theatre, garbed in a belted shooting jacket which he said had been made in 1904 and in what one observer called "an indescribably peaked Tartar cap," Shaw greeted his guests with gusto and much pleased tugging at his flaring, white beard. He left, however, before the final curtain...
Critics have said that the most artistically significant things in U. S. architecture are not skyscrapers or state capitols but grain-elevators, barns, oil-cracking stills. They say that because the grain-elevator is not plastered with irrelevant art and decoration, because the barn was not preconceived in Paris or Athens, because these buildings are simple, sincere and to-the-point. they are Good...
...stimulate the real native tradition latent in such architecture there should be, the critics have said, a really native architectural school. Such a school is now in the up-building at Lake Forest...
Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...