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PRESTO-TIMES
June 16, 1928
Chicago Broadcasters' Association yesterday at a
luncheon in the Palmer Mouse.
Elimination of the squeal and the whistle and cab-
inet design improvements were hailed as the outstand-
Fourth Annual Meeting and Second Annual ing developments in the radio industry during the last
year by delegates.
Trade Show Held at Stevens Hotel,
Ten thousand manufacturers, inventors, technicians,
Chicago, This Week.
jobbers, wholesalers and retailers were on hand at
The fourth annual convention and second annual the opening. An attendance of 25,000 was recorded
trade show of the Radio Manufacturers' Association Wednesday. The largest delegation comprised nearly
opened at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, on Monday of 400 from New York city. A special train of eighteen
this week with thousands of members registered from Pullmans brought them to Chicago.
all parts of the country. In addition, hundreds of
The 1928 models of receiving sets are fool-proof
radio dealers and wholesalers, comprising the Fed- and will not go wrong, according to H. B. Richmond
erated Radio Trades Association, held their conven- of Cambridge, Mass., chairman of the engineering
tion in conjunction with the manufacturers' group.
division of the Radio Manufacturers' Association.
Due to mergers and consolidations, the trade show
Among the notables attending the convention are
Eugene O. Sykes, Harold La Fount and Samuel this year is about twice the size of the exposition a
Pickard, members of the Federal Radio Commission. year ago in the amount of floor space used. The total
Judges Sykes, who represents the Southern Zone, of exhibitors is 207 and more than $1,000,000 worth
and Mr. Pickard were the guests of honor of the of receiving sets and radio apparatus is on display.
Thirty thousand square feet of floor space is utilized
to exhibit these products, which represent the lines
of makers of 90 per cent of the radio products made
in the United States.
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Conn band instruments figured heavily in the first
and Action Trade in
observance of National Music) Week at Laconia,
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national body to be held at the Statler Hotel in
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