We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
8/26/41
R, C. A. COra.TUlTICATIONS ALSO ON TIE JOB
This letter was received from F. P, Guthrie, of i/ashington. District Communications Manager of R,C,A* Communications,
Inc, :
”1 was interested to read j.n your letter of August 19 about the I.IacKay Radio and Telegraph Company compiling some current rate information,
”ln order that you may he further informed on such mat¬ ters, I take pleasure in sending you herewith an R.C.A, Folder giving the rates to all parts of the v/orld as well as a booklet covering restrictions of service, a couple of maps, and a card which will enable you to tell what time it is on the other side of the world,"
One of the miaps which Hr, Guthrie so kindly sent showed the R,C,A, radio telegraph circuits to foreign countries and dif¬ ferent parts of the U.S.A, Another was of the \7estern Hemisphere also showing R,C,A, telegraph circuits cautioned "The Good Neighbor Route to the Americas via the R.C.A," and a sub-caption "The Short¬ est Distance Between Two Points is a Straight Line."
X X X X X X X X
§2,400,000 EXPANSION OF G-E RilDIO FACILITIES
Construction of a nev/ §1,275,000 building for the assembly and testing of radio equipment for the Army and Navy has been started here according to an announcement by Charles E, Wilson, president of the General Electric Company,
The building, to be equipped at an additional cost of 000, 000, is part of a §2,400,000 project of the Defense Plant Corporation for expansion of radio manufacturing facilities at the General Electric Plant in Schenectady, The program includes pur¬ chase and renovation of the old ?ifeber Electric Company plant. It will provide employment for approximately 2000 viforkers.
The nev/ building, a single-story wooden structure 1000 feet long and 200 feet wide with 200,000 square feet of floor space, is expected to be finished by Oct, 1 and all equipment installed by next June, The V/eber plant renovations, v/liich will provide approximately 60,000 additional square feet of floor space, are expected to be completed by the first of next month. Production is already under way in part of this space.
The buildings and equipment financed by the Defense P^ant Corporation will be operated by the General Electric Company but title vi^ill remain v;ith the government.
10.