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Last week Walter Winchell was master of ceremonies on the inauguration program of Brazil's new-and South America's first - 50,000-watt short-wave radio station. Owned and operated by the Government's Radio Nacional, it has the unabashed purpose of spreading Brazilian propaganda, news and culture over the world-an answer to Falangist broadcasts from Franco Spain...
...through experimenting in their meat market they had come out with something the engineers said was impossible: a tube in which a high vacuum is created, without the aid of special chemicals and maintained by the tube elements themselves. Though radio engineers in 1934 thought 3,000-4,000 watts was the top power for vacuum tubes, "Eimac" tubes are now capable of power peaks up to 1,000,000 watts-yet their cost is extraordinarily low. Even at the beginning Jack and Bill sold 2,500-watt tubes to incredulous airline ground stations for only...
...Done It?, beginning as soda jerks ambitious to write radio thrillers and going on to a cops & robbers chase, they regale their fans with such choice double-takes as "Who?" "Watt," "That's what I said." Their freshest...
...they could bathe themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...
...speech before Conservatives in his constituency by Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary Harvie Watt, who described British second-front meetings as "violent political propaganda" and told off advocates of a second front with the remark that they "had never distinguished themselves by any great desire to shoulder arms...