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...radio mirror) 60 or 70 miles up. The artificial display would be the same in fundamental principle (emission of light by electrically excited atoms) as natural auroras, or as the glow caused in neon lights by electric currents. The scientist pointed out that existing super-power installations, such as Cincinnati's 500-kilowatt WLW (see p. 66) or the Moscow station of equal power, were strong enough to induce glow discharges in the upper air which would be of immense value for studying changing movements and density of ions in the ionosphere...
...Powel Jr. wanted to buy a radio for Powel III. Asked to pay $130 for a one-tube set, he found he could buy parts and make one himself for $35. Result was Crosley Radio Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, now approximately fourth largest U.S. radio producer. From the vocation of making radios to the avocation of radio broadcasting was a short shunt and the upshot was station WLW, most powerful in the world along with Moscow's RVI. WLW sends out such big charges (500,000 watts) that neighbors report hearing hillbilly bands in their drainpipes and lighting electric...
...Crosley became interested in iceboxes. Now Crosley Refrigerators are turned out on an assembly belt at a rate of nearly 2,000 a day. An old baseball fan, Mr. Crosley had long been disturbed by the Cincinnati Reds consistently losing money and games. So in 1934 he bought Line No. 5. He has since carried the Reds out of the red and into the first division of the National League...
Last week, as Mr. Crosley left Cincinnati for a ten-day trip on his 100-foot yacht, Sea Owl, he denied that his company was ready to produce automobiles, but admitted "experiments." Stockholders, having ratified the proposed changes, met this week to discuss next moves. Cincinnatians, believing Powel Crosley had crossed the switch into a new siding, expected to see the new car before the New Year...
...their many courtesies." Informed of her good fortune, pretty Mrs. Kniskern was too dazed to speak. Said William Reilly, now a $52-a-month hospital attendant whose luck has grown steadily worse: "Now that I'm a capitalist, I hope this Hitler drops dead." Reward In Cincinnati, the Traffic Safety Council decided to reward motorists who perform outstanding acts of courtesy and consideration. The reward (to be given each week to the city's most courteous motorists) : an orchid...