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collision is also largely based on seeing. But night reduces the effectiveness of these aids to navigation and fog almost renders them useless.
"Radio beams of the newer high-frequency waves will pro¬ vide a method of locating aids to navigation as well as locating obstacles when these cannot be seen. Navigation of aircraft will be aided also, "
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W.U. -POSTAL MERGER BILL DOES NOT AFFECT FOREIGN RADIO
Apparently the bill passed by the Senate Thursday, which would permit a merger of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies affects only the domestic communications companies and does not contain any authorization for the merging of U. S. radio and cable companies in the international field. The bill as origi¬ nally drafted did, but evidently this clause was dropped later.
Senator McFarland (D, ), of Arizona, said the measure authorizing the voluntary consolidation and merger of all domestic telegraph operations was "soundly in the public interest".
The Senator asserted that the Postal Telegraph Co. was "going in the hole" at a rate of $300,000 monthly, while Western Union suffered "great losses in recent years". He said that merger should assure an efficient telegraph communication system badly needed for the war effort.
The bill now goes to the House.
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RADIO WISECRACK CONTRIBUTES TO C0NGRESSI4AN‘ S DEFEAT
According to Mark Sullivan, noted columnist. Representative Luther Patrick ( D. ) , of Ninth Alabama District, made one wisecrack too many over the air. Mr, Sullivan write sj
"One cause of Mr. ^*atrick's defeat was his own fault. In a radio address he had tried to be, for a moment, a smart aleck. He had emitted a wisecrack. His opponent made a phonograph recording of the wisecrack and played it up and down the district. The unfor¬ tunate Joclsity was only two sentences: 'You know how it is with Congressmen, We vote a bill out today, and then buy a paper to see what it was, ' "
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