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Through an opening in the radio room they saw the body of the operator huddled over his keys. Dead men hung on the valves as they died. Searchers found a body hanging on a pipe in a passageway, its position telling vividly of the man's last gasping struggle for life. The corpses, for the most part, were to be buried with honors at Arlington Cemetery. Six of the ill-fated crew still sleep unredeemed on the ocean...
...Szolnok, Hungary, terrified peasants besought the local mayor to avert continuance of the recent catastrophic rains throughout Europe (TIME, July 12) by ordering the removal of "all ill omened radio aerials." Scientists talked learnedly of sun spots. Rain fell...
...automotive industry is at a peak, and there are more U. S. farm horses than ever before. Similarly, it is natural to conclude that wireless communication is superseding cable lines. But, last week, the Western Union Co. manifested the continued vigor of its industry, spurred perhaps by radio competition, by landing the Newfoundland shore-end of a new New York-to-London cable costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through...
...Passed the Dill Radio Bill, putting control in hands of a commission of five, thereby relieving Secretary of Commerce Hoover of one of the many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed in the declaration that "Use, but not ownership of channels of radio transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference...
From 14 countries they came, strong men and suave men, sputtering men and conservative men, dynamic men and diplomatic men, admen all. President Coolidge sent messages of good cheer. In the message that opened the convention, their president, C. K. Woodbridge (U. S.), spoke of "the radio . . . telephone . . . telegraph . . . airplanes . . . automobiles . . . daily papers . . . national magazines. . . ." With all these media of communication the admen were concerned; many of them were the paid publicity agents of the industries named; through these industries the utterances of their convention were distributed to a listening world...