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The denial of the application of C. L. Carrell, of Springfield, Mo. , for a construction permit and the granting of the application of the Kent's Furniture & Music Store, of Tifton, Ga. , for a renewal of the license of WRBI , were recommended in reports just submitted to the Federal Radio Commission by Examiner Elmer 17* Pratt.
A microphone which the speaker may disregard entirely was used here when Sergious P. Grace, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, addressed the Washington Board of Trade. Placed in the breast pocket of the coat, the new type "mike" caught the voice through chest vibrations. Its advantage was that instead of the speaker having to stand still directly in front of the microphone of the public address system in the hall, he was at liberty to move about at will. It can also be used in radio broadcasting.
"Education on the Air", the first year book of the Institute for Education by Radio at Ohio State University, has just been published by the Payne Fund, Ohio Department of Education, and the University. It contains 400 pages, is attractively bound, and sells for $53. 00.
Among the long list of contributors are Ray S. Erlandson, of the Grigsby-Grunow Company; Mary Philput, of KDICA; Vida Sutton, of the National Broadcasting Co.; Harrison Sayre, of American Education Press, and Radio Commissioner Ira E. Robinson.
The story of a side street radio dealer who built up an annual business of $1,000,000 is told by C. B. McCuaig in the current Editor & Publisher. The dealer is in Buffalo, N. Y.
The 32 life boats of the "President Hoover", the new Dollar Line liner recently launched at Newport News, Va. , are equipped with automatic radio transmitters that send out continual SOS signals by the mere turning of a crank.
The manually operated generator also supplies electric current for a flickering beam of light on each life boat. The radio apparatus will have a range of approximately 1,000 miles.
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