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...watt ultrashort-wave transmitter could weigh less than 50 lbs., said Dr. Hutcheson, and its signal would be strong enough to reach from moon to earth, even without the advantage of a directional beam. Power could come from batteries. The whole apparatus would have to be designed to deal with the vacuum of space, and designed to operate both in extreme cold and in the high temperature (250° F.) of the lunar midday. To Dr. Hutcheson such difficulties were minor...
...Frank Watt...
...words you quote appeared in a contribution on the editorial page by Mr. William Henry Chamberlin, and I think it must be clear that Mr. Chamberlin was expressing his own opinion and not the opinion of the Wall Street Journal. . . . The editorial position of the Watt Street Journal on Mr. Churchill's speech is quite opposite from what you have represented...
...third and largest network, for general listening, was overhauled from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian...
Other likely contestants, in the two latter categories especially, are Don Watt, G. M. Edgarton, Ernst Petschek, and Toby Ross...