Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1930)

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Lieut* Commander T. A. M. Craven, U. S. N. , long in charge of the radio research work in the Bureau of Engineering, Navy Depart¬ ment, and later short wave expert in the Federal Radio Commission, has resigned from the Navy. He will become associated with Prof. C.M. Jansky and Stuart Bailey as a consulting engineer. A telegram received from the Methodist Episcopal churches in New Jersey was forwarded to the Federal Radio Commission by Senator Kean, protesting against the granting of a license for a new 50,000 watt transmitter for Station WOR, Newark. Visual broadcasting licenses are issued on an experimental and temporary basis because television is still in the experimental stage, theRadio Commission declared this week in a statement of facts filed with the District Court of Appeals in explaining the denial of the application of the Short Wave and Television Laboratory, Inc. , of Boston, for permission to establish a sound-television broadcasting combination. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh, has asked permission of the Radio Commission to build a transmitter with 400,000 watts power for use in experimental broad¬ casting between 1 and 6 A. M. The application states that the station, which would be so constructed as to operate with power ranging from 50,000 to 400,000 watts, would be used to develop high power transmitters and synchroni¬ zation. Coffee will no longer be described in radio talks and other advertising media by words that would mislead purchasers into believ¬ ing that it is treated with a special ripening process, the Federal Trade Commission has ruled in the case of a certain selling and distributing company, the name of which is not revealed. More than 6,000,000 Catholics in the United States will pray this month on instructions of Pope Pius XI for ,fprotection against dangerous broadcasting", according to the New York Times. It is recalled that a radio station is being erected at the Vatican. Radio broadcasting and communication facilities to provide entertainment for workers who this week began construction on the Boulder Dam project have been requested of the Radio Commission by Senators Oddie and Pittman, of Nevada.