December 15, 1929
R A D I O
GRIGSBY SIX MONTHS
EARNINGS EXCELLENT
Distributors and Dealers Expect to Have Need of
Much More Goods by January 1.
Earnings of the Grigsby-Grunow Company for the
first half of its fiscal year, the six months ended No-
vember 30, were substantially larger than the dividend
requirements of $2 a share for the entire year, the
company's directors were informed. The regular
quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share on the com-
pany's common stock was declared payable January 2
to stockholders of record December 16.
B. J. Grigsby, president of the company, issued the
following statement: "Sales to consumers are run-
ning double the present rate of production, which will
permit distributors and dealers practically to clear
their inventories of merchandise by the first of the
year. The company has recently purchased, and paid
for, the thirty-four-acre plants of the General Motors
Company, which it formerly occupied under lease.
After making such payment, company has at least
$15,000,000 available for working capital. These re-
cent acquisitions of property round out our manufac-
turing requirements so that the company is now pro-
vided with facilities to enable it to take advantage of
every known economy in manufacturing and thereby
produce its merchandise at lowest cost known in the
industry.'
SELLING FADAS AROUND LOUISVILLE.
One of the most progressive radio distributors in
the country is the Peaslee-Gaulbert Corporation with
headquarters at Louisville, Ky. Charles Baines, the
manager of the radio department, never overlooks an
opportunity to spread his merchandising gospel. Re-
cently he installed five Fada radio sets on a truck, so
arranged that they can be operated while the truck is
"on tour." The vehicle completed a 5,000 mile trip
through Southern Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee
over mountains, all kinds of bad roads and detours.
A couple of times it went into the ditch but always
"came up smiling" and like the covered wagons of
old, kept rolling on and on.
THE ADVANCEMENT OF RADIO.
Much work has been done during the last year by
the United States Bureau of Standards for the joint
benefit of radio and aviation. Among important de-
velopments are: a new type of visual airplane radio
beacon sending out any number of courses up to 12;
methods of shielding the electrical equipment of air-
plane engines to eliminate radio interference, and the
improvement of quartz oscillators used as fundamental
standards of frequency.
RADIO EXPORTS DOUBLE.
Exports of radio apparatus from the United States
have practically doubled within the past year, accord-
ing to Charles J. Hopkins, manager of the foreign
department of the Crosley Radio Corporation, who
recently visited South America after another trip to
Italy, Spain, France and England. He said that im-
proved broadcasting facilities in foreign countries have
greatly stimulated the sale of receiving sets abroad.
THIEVES WITH MUSICAL TASTES.
Burglars of musical tendencies on December 10
broke into the home of John W. Moorehead, 1242
Elmwood avenue, Evanston, 111., and after testing out
a radio set valued at $300 carried it away. Later the
same burglars are believed to have broken into the
Ideal Auto Supply Company store at 520 Davis street,
Evanston, where they displayed their musical tastes
by taking, among other loot, two musical automobile
horns.
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RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
owning. Spalding experts have combed the market
for the finest radios at every price, and every radio
in the Spalding shop has their unqualified approval.
Each has been tested for tone, selectivity and power.
Each is outstanding in every phase of radio perform-
DEMONSTRATION OF RADIO TALKIES.
For the first time, the public at large will shortly
have an opportunity of attending a demonstration of
radio talkies, or to be more explicit, perfectly syn-
chronized television and sound broadcasting. It has
remained for the progressive radio distributors, D. W.
May & Co. of Newark, N. J., to stage the first public
A GULBRANSEN SALES CLINIC.
demonstration of sight and sound broadcasting, in col-
The Storz Western Auto Supply Company, of laboration with the Jenkins Television Corporation of
Omaha, Neb., Gulbransen radio distributors for the Jersey City, N. J. The public demonstration will be
entire state of Nebraska and western Iowa, were hosts held in the Auditorium of the Griffith Piano Com-
recently to the 104 new dealers who were signed up pany at 605 Broad street, Newark, N. J., on December
in their territory during a period of three weeks' 19, 20 and 21, following a showing to the radio trade.
time. "The convention was in the nature of a 'sales The Jenkins special short-wave receiver, a power am-
clinic' for the purpose of acquainting dealers with the plifier, and a number of Jenkins radiovisors will be
Gulbransen sets and merchandising policies, and to employed to intercept and translate the television sig-
give further impetus to an intensive sales campaign nals from the Jenkins station, W2XCR, at Jersey City.
now being carried on by the company," said Louis Simultaneously, another receiver will intercept the
H. Storz, general manager of the Omaha con- sound broadcast signals from the new De Forest
cern. John S. Gorman, vice-president of the Gul- experimental radio telephone transmitter at Passaic,
bransen Company, was a guest at the meeting, and N. J. The voices and living pictures of C. Francis
addressed the visiting dealers on the firm's plans for Jenkins, pioneer television worker, and Dr Lee De-
the coming year and the extent to which it is pre- Forest, the Father of Radio, will be received at the
Auditorium, together with various program features,
pared to back up its dealers in their sales efforts.
in demonstrating the scope of present-day television.
WARFIELD USES A STROMBERG-CARLSON.
"In his beautiful New York apartment overlook-
SOFT-PEDALING THE RADIO.
ing Central Park," says a New York ad, "amid his
The Clarostat Manufacturing Company, 285 North
magnificent collection of art treasures, among which Sixth street, Brooklyn, N. Y., is manufacturing the
are included some of the finest paintings of Corot, Clarostat table-type control, which it claims is in-
Botticelli, Daubigny, Sargent and Rousseau, David valuable in the home. With it you may control the
Warfield, famous on the stage as "The Music Mas- volume and tone of your radio music, from wherever
ter," spends many enjoyable hours before his Strom- you may be, simply by turning the control knob. It
berg-Carlson radio. Now it is a concert by the is very light, not awkward to carry around, and
New York Symphony; again, Graham MacNamej allows instantaneous and wonderfully convenient con-
reporting a famous sporting event. President trol. With it, when you are at the table, you merely
Hoover, or Ramsay MacDonald. With that discrim- turn the knob to regulate the volume and the tone of
inating taste that has served him so well in the the music to fit the needs of dinner talk, to make the
selection of his paintings, silver, old glass, rare altar music form a suitable aesthetic background without
cloths, velvets and tapestries, Mr. Warfield pur- intruding. With it, if you are chatting pleasantly
chased a Stromberg-Carlson."
with a friend who has dropped in for the afternoon,
you may tone down the music so that you do not have
to raise your voice to be heard, or strain your ears
BAN ON RADIO SONGS.
Radio fans must have noticed an absence of certain to hear. With it you may hurry to the telephone and
musical hits from general radio programs of late. adjust the volume of sound coming from your radio
The reason given by the American Society of Com- so that it will not interfere with your hearing over
posers, Authors and Publishers is, that there is too the telephone.
much popular rendition without protection for the
author, which protection is harder to follow up now
RADIO EYE HARD TO FOOL.
than before the advent of the radio.—The Kablegram,
Television is something quite different from the
Mount Morris, 111.
usual sound broadcasting. Both arts may be based
on the same broad radio essentials, but in practice
RETAIL RADIO SALES GAIN.
Sales of radio equipment during the first three quar- many differences are encountered. For one thing, it
ters of 1929 reached a total of $360,897,207, with the is far easier to fool the radio ear, with just an
biggest quarter of the year yet to be heard from, approximation of music and speech, than it is to fool
during which 40 per cent of the industry's sales are the radio eye or television broadcasting, with incorrect
usually made, according to figures deduced from the pictorial values. New and improved scanning meth-
Department of Commerce quarterly survey of dealer ods have had to be developed. All of which has re-
stocks and sales. The sales for the third quarter were quired much time and enormous effort, but never-
14 per cent ahead of those for the corresponding quar- theless the goal of practical television now looms in
sight.
ter of last vear.
BIG OUTPUT OF ATWATER KENT.
Announcement was made by the Atwater Kent
Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, of a 100 per
cent increase in radio production in the last three
weeks of November. The demand from its distrib-
utors throughout the country in those weeks necessi-
tated a doubling of its production and a resultant in-
crease in the number of factory employes.
BOOMING THE POOLEY CABINETS.
The Davega Stores, New York, makes these state-
ments: "Pooley—famous the world over for cab-
inets of unexcelled beauty—now furnishes a new, ex-
quisite console for the Atwater Kent radio. It's
enough to know that you're getting an Atwater Kent
whose marvelous tone has charmed millions. It's
sufficient to know that the cabinet is by Pooley."
CALLING INDIVIDUALS BY RADIO.
A radio call signal has been put in use by the
Berlin police which operates like a telephone call,
says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Experiments
have shown 98 per cent of all calls arriving from
a 200-volt transmitter 200 miles distant were re-
ceived. The calling device may be attached to any
radio receiver, the call signals being made up of
relatively long initial and terminal strokes between
which there are some short strokes, the number, ar-
rangement and duration of which are characteristic
of each signal.
RADIOLA 46 AND 44.
The RCA Radiola, New York, makes this announce-
ment in the New York dailies: "Quick proof of
THE SPARTON EQUASONNE.
Radiola superiority by demonstration at any Radiola
The Sparton radio is advertised in New York as
dealer's store. The pioneer screen-grid radios espe-
follows: "The 1930 Sparton Equasonne receiver is
cially designed and built. Sensitivity and selectivity
GOVERNMENT PLANS RADIO BEACON.
absolutely the ultimate in perfection of internal con-
The Federal Government is planning construction that meet every broadcasting demand. Freedom from
struction. Its tone is the rich, clear, harmonious tone
that comes with perfect reception. Its cabinet mod- of a radio beacon and broadcasting station near the distortion and hum. The finest tone realism. Super-
eled after the old Italian design; exquisitely carved and airport at Albany. An expenditure of $80,000 is in- values which only the vast RCA organization can
offer. Hear Radiola 46 or 44 today—a new thrill
volved.
finished; accoustically perfect."
awaits you."
SIX STATIONS IN ITALY.
SPALDING HANDLES THREE LINES.
A. G. Spalding & Bros. Radio Shop, 212 South
There are six broadcasting stations in operation RADIO LISTENERS' ENDURANCE CONTEST.
State street, Chicago, is handling three lines of radio, in Italy now. They are at Rome, Naples, Milan,
Mrs. Mildred Daniel, 22 years old, won the radio
the Victor, the Majestic and the Atwater Kent. Of Genoa, Turin and Bolzano.
listeners' endurance contest at Louisville, Ky., on De-
its radio business it says: "The Spalding idea bans
cember 9, after she had gone for 106 hours without
all discontinued models, all unknown makes, all sets
The executive offices of the DeForest Radio Com- sleep. The contest was held in a down-town store
that might give trouble. It is the idea of taking the pany have been moved from the Jersey City plant window with the prize to be a $200 radio. More than
risk out of radio buying and the trouble out of radio to the main plant at Passaic, N. J.
60 persons entered.
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