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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army air corps experimenters...
Wheat. The Canadian Wheat Pool was a full-fledged organization in 1924. It attempted to control world prices, failed. The Federal Farm Board, set up last year, has pegged the price of wheat in the U. S. but found no way of disposing of its surplus. The result may be transferring the loss from the farmers to all the taxpayers. To limit production in future, the Board has for months been urging, begging, warning U. S. farmers to plant less wheat, at least 15% less. Last week the Department of Agriculture reported a 1.1% acreage reduction in 1931 winter wheat...
Petroleum. In 1924 President Coolidge appointed an oil conservation board, saying: "The supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. . . . Over- production in itself encourages cheapness, which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has retarded oil curtailment in the U. S. In certain states there seems no legal way to coerce small producers. The Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste...
Edwin Sibley Webster, co-founder of Stone & Webster, Inc., resigned as president, became vice chairman of the Board. He was succeeded by George O. Muhlfeld, previously vice president...
Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., nephew of the board chairman of International Harvester Co., was made Northwest district manager for the company. He has been working up-from-the-bottom since...