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The General Electric Company announced July 14 that its sales for the first six months of 1930 exceeded the total for the corresponding period of last year by $3,000,000, while the net profit available for dividends on the common stock was slightly less than a year ago, amounting to $29,273,276, equivalent to $1.01 a share on the outstanding common stock. This compares with $30,740,768, or $1.07 a share, for the corresponding six months of 1929.
Those stations desiring further information on medical quacks may be interested to know that at the suggestion of Health Commissioner Wynn, of New York, the National Better Business Bureau, 383 Madison Avenue, New York City, has compiled a "Rogues’ Gallery" with complete histories of more than 25,000 disreputable practi¬ tioners and manufacturers of spurious cures. It lists not only those who have been in trouble with the law, but many who have thus far avoided arrest.
The Federal Radio Commission on July 15 filed notification of an appeal from the temporary injunction granted by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on the application of WHAM, Rochester, N. Y. The statement filed with the Supreme Court enumerated a series of alleged errors in the Court’s action. WI^AM was one of the appellants in the 26 station proposed shift. The Commission has already appealed to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia from the Supreme Court’s adverse action.
The Department of Commerce has announced that a new radio beacon is to be erected on the Kauai Island of the Hawaiian group to supplement one already in operation and to enable approach¬ ing vessels to take a two-point bearing, establishing distance as well as direction.
Intercity Radio Telegraph Company has asked the Radio Commission to assign its station, WTK, of Cleveland, to the newlyorganized Midwest 7/ireless Company. The latter company has also requested the Commission to renew the license of the Intercity station at Duluth, Minn.
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