Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KTSA Broadcasting Co. in San Antonio. Reputedly drawing down $10,000 a year, he has lived in Fort Worth, home town of his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins. Last June, as quietly as possible, Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt contracted in her own name to buy the dinky loo-watt Station KFJZ at Fort Worth. Last month, Elliott himself drove unheralded to San Antonio, sipped a highball, autographed a legal document and thereby contracted in his own name to buy another 100-watter, (250 watts in the daytime) Station KABC at San Antonio. Both deals are subject to approval...
...Hundred-watt stations are penny-antes in the gigantic game of radio, and opinion was divided last week whether Elliott can make much money from them. KABC, for example, is housed in an unimpressive seven-room suite, plays many phonograph records, has only one specialty-night baseball broadcasting. It has made a little money. As for KFJZ, Elliott last week told the F.C.C. that his wife knows everyone in Fort Worth and that the station's business is already increasing in anticipation of her ownership...
Boiling up menacingly was the year-old feud between one of the Commission's three Republican members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance...
...fillers for electric tamp bulbs manufactured in the U. S. In Europe, however, krypton-filled lamps have been manufactured by Philips Glowlamp Works of Holland and other companies for about three years. Krypton lamps cost 75?, compared to 25? for argon lamps, but their sponsors claim that a 40-watt krypton lamp sheds as much light as an ordinary 50-watt bulb and that the cooling effect of krypton remarkably prolongs the bulb's life...
...research completed just in time for cheering at the dedicatory exercises last week was a new derivative of quinine which relieves pneumonia. While Mr. Mellon listened attentively, Dr. William Watt Graham MacLachlan, physician-in-chief of Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital where the stuff was given to patients last year, reported that the use of hydroxy-ethyl-apocupreine cut his pneumonia death rate in half. Only 27% of his patients died as compared with the 45% Pittsburgh mortality rate. It is given like quinine in capsules by mouth...