20
PRESTO-TIMES
March 5, 1927.
rially exceeded their orders for 1925. The Corpora-
tion not only supplies these companies with its stand-
ard Radiolas for installation in cabinets with pho-
Interesting Facts Printed in Annual Statement of nographs, but it also provides the component parts
of the electrically reproducing phonograph—a tech-
Conditions for Year Ending Dec. 31, 1926.
nical development of the Radio Corporation and its
The annual report of the directors of the Radio manufacturing associates.
Corporation of America for the year ending Decem-
"To insure stability among the staff, encourage
ber 31, 1926, made recently to the stockholders, dis- habits of economy, reward long and faithful service
closed some interesting facts about radio conditions and assist deserving employes to provide against old
and the workings of the corporation.
age, the Board of Directors on December 17th
For instance, radio stations on 822 ships are con- adopted a Pension Plan for employes of the Radio
trolled by the Radio Corporation. The program of Corporation. This Pension Plan became effective
modernizing these shipboard stations will be com- on January 1, 1927, and provides for the retirement
pleted in 1927. The use of continuous wave tube of employes who have been twenty or more years
transmitters for this service has placed the Radio continuously in the service on reaching the age of
Corporation in the position of leadership in this sixty-five years (males) and sixty years (females)."
field. The report continues in part:
"The business resulting from the contracts with
THE LAW ON TRADE NAMES.
the Victor Talking Machine Company and the Bruns-
A descriptive word cannot be appropriated as a
wick-Balke-Collender Company was entirely satisfac- trade mark at common law, either alone or in com-
tory, the purchases of both companies having mate- b i n a t i o n with other words. Nevertheless and
though a descriptive word can not become the sub-
ject of a trade mark, when a person has adopted and
for a long time used a word or words, descriptive
or otherwise, as a trade name until it has acquired
a new or secondary meaning, viz.: a designation of
a particular product or business as belonging to that
person, the courts will protect him in his rights in
relation to the trade name.
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AN ELECTRIC PHONOGRAPH.
A device known as the "Merola," to convert a
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The "Merola" consists of a tone arm, magnetic re-
producer unit and volume-control device. In appear-
ance it resembles the phonograph tone arm, which it
replaces. It is equipped with a cord and adapter.
The adapter is inserted into 'the detector socket of
any receiving set using standard storage battery of
UX type of tube base, and the tone arm is attached
to the phonograph. After this connection is made the
music from the phonograph record is reproduced
through the receiving set and loud-speaker.
ORGAN PEST DISCOVERED.
The Zoological Institute of Germany, in investi-
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days hatch out. The young insects are quite blind,
but that does not matter during their home in the
wood, and they live by boring and eating their way
steadily towards daylight. This process, however,
often takes years to perfect, and by the time the in-
sects appear in the open air the trees have been
cut, made into planks, transported, and in some cases
made into cathedral organs.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
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