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October 1, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
R A D I O
NEW YORK HOLDS
RADIO WORLD'S FAIR
Radio Had High Innings at Madison Square
Garden All of Last
Week.
Choice of Atlantic City for the 1930 RMA conven-
tion and trade show, protection of the radio industry
and public against harmful radio legislation, stimu-
lation of broadcasting features, and other trade pro-
motion, pressure of the RMA patent interchange plan,
and the semi-annual convention of the engineering
division, were the high lights of a crowded calendar
of the Radio Manufacturing Association, its board of
directors and committees, at the Hotel Astor, during
the week of the annual Radio World's Fair at Madi-
son Square Garden, September 23-28.
"Hands across the sea" felicitations were exchanged
by the RMA of the United States and Great Britain
during the Radio World's Fair at New York. By
radio, of course, the heads of the British and Ameri-
can organizations of radio manufacturers exchanged
wireless messages, expressing cooperation in their
mutual aims in connection with the opening of radio
exhibitions sponsored by both organizations. By co-
incidence the Sixth Annual Radio World's Fair at
Madison Square Garden in New York, sponsored by
the RMA, was opened on the same day that the Bnt-
ish National Radio Exhibition, under the auspices oi
the British RMA, opened at Olympia, London.
President H. B. Richmond of the American RMA
sent a radio message to Sir John T. Mould, chair-
man of the British RMA, and received a prompt wire-
less message in reply.
Many important radio conditions and problems
were considered at conferences and meetings of radio
industry leaders. The annual Radio World's Fair at
Madison Square Garden brought a large gathering of
radio manufacturers, broadcasters, jobbers and deal-
ers to New York.
The Radio Manufacturers Association's Board of
Directors met at 10 o'clock Wednesday, September
25, at the Hotel Astor. President H. B. Richmond of
Cambridge presided, and a number of important
measures in connection with radio broadcasting, as
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
well as manufacture, were handled on the program of
the RMA Board.
The following RMA meetings, all at the Hotel
Astor, were held during the Radio Show Week:
Contact Committee, Lester E. Noble of New York,
chairman; Fair Trade Practice Committee, Morris
Metcalf of Springfield, Mass., chairman; Patent Com-
mittte, Le Roi J. Williams of Cambridge, Mass.,
chairman; Statistics Committee, George C. Furness
of New York, chairman; Traffic Committee (Eastern
Division), William Hildebrand of West Orange, N. J.,
chairman; Broadcasting Committee, B. G. Erskiue of
Emporium, Pa., chairman; Legislative Committee, C.
C. Colby of Boston, Mass., chairman.
Board of Directors' meeting, H. B. Richmond of
Cambridge, Mass., president.
Engineering Division, Walter E. Holland of Phila-
delphia, chairman.
Show Committee, J. B. Hawley of St. Charles, 111.,
chairman.
Credit Committee (Eastern Division), S. I. Cole of
New York, chairman.
The show during its first three days did a big busi-
ness with a sale of more than $4,500,000 worth of
radio sets sold and business growing bigger each day.
AUTO PLANT T O MAKE RADIOS.
Arrangements between the Radio Corporation of
America and the General Motors Corporation for the
production of radio receiving sets, which now are being
discussed, will be on the basis of General Motors merely
furnishing manufacturing facilities to a new company
to be formed, with the Radio Corporation handling the
distribution, according to newspaper reports. The
Cadillac Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors, is
marketing a radio receiving set manufactured by the
Delco-Remy Company, another subsidiary of General
Motors. All the new models of Cadillac cars have
aerials in the bodies, and the Delco-Remy set, built for
use in connection with the new bodies, is sold as extra
equipment at $150.
NEW SETS F O R FARM USE.
New sets designed especially for farm use are being
introduced by the Radio Corporation of America. The
Radiola 21 is a small table model equipped with the
UX-222 screen-grid so that batteries can be utilized as
source of power. The second rural set is a console of
Queen Anne design and is built to house all the batteries.
ZENITH WYOMING AGENCY
Distribution of Zenith Automatic and remote con-
trolled radio receivers in the State of Wyoming has
been placed in the hands of the Tarr, McComb &
Ware Commercial Company of Kingman, Arizona, it
is announced by Hugh Robertson, General Sales
Manager of the Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago.
Tarr, McComb & Ware, who are engaged in the
wholesale lumber, mining, auto and electrical supply
business, are one of the oldest established companies
in Kingman. Branches are maintained in Chloride
and Oatman, Arizona. Allen E. Ware is president
and general manager.
T H E N E W GREBE RADIO.
The Grebe Sales Co., 113 West 57th Street, New
York, says in its latest advertisement: "The New
Grebe is just out, and with it comes the secret of its
tonal excellence—the 'Equalized Band Pass Filter' used
with screen grid tubes. To most people this will mean
simply a technical term. But what this exclusive Grebe
development does in utilizing all the advantages of the
new screen grid tubes, controlling their power without
subduing it—eliminating all outside noise and interfer-
ence—means very much to every discriminating buyer
who is seeking the best and latest in radio."
VICTOR TALKING REDUCES CAPITAL.
Stockholders of the Victor Talking Machine Company
recently approved a reduction in the 7 per cent cumula-
tive prior preferred stock and 122,115 shares of cumu-
lative convertible preferred stock, which were all called
for redemption by the company on August 1, 1929.
COLONIAL FEATURES.
Colonial's feature is four screen-grid tubes in an
eight-lube circuit, with "Cutting" sound radiation which
issues from the bottom of the cabinet instead of from
the front as in the majority of sets.
EASY KOLSTER MANIPULATION.
The new remote control device, a feature of the latest
Kolsters, permits the owner to start the radio from a
remote point in the house, tune in a favorite station and
manipulate the volume to please.
Peck & Hills radio is advertised in Chicago as being
exhibited on the mezzanine foyer of the Balaban &
Katz Chicago Theater, Chicago.
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