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Show RADIO FLASHES The New York-to-Brazil airplane air-plane carried a two-stage radio receiving warnings, time signals, sig-nals, news bulletins and entertainment. enter-tainment. All ships sailing from American Ameri-can harbors and carrying 50 persons per-sons are required by law to maintain and operate a radio set capable of covering at least 100 miles. Every one of the 15 airmail stations in the United States is radio-equipped. It is planned to provide a few of these with radio telephone, as well as radio ra-dio telegraph, service. Montclair, N. J., has Installed In Its high school an aerial equal In size to some of the broadcasting broad-casting stations. The receiving set is in the physics department and many of the pupils are licensed li-censed operators. It Is reported that government experts have noticed that high-frequency high-frequency waves from radio broadcasting stations nearby have caused vegetation to take on a larger growth and reach maturity sooner than under ordinary or-dinary conditions. It is proposed to Increase the facilities for broadcasting by varying some of the many 360-meter 360-meter stations by 23 or more meters. It Is believed that this arrangement would permit more of the stations to operate at the same time and make It unnecessary unneces-sary to divide the time into so many rather short periods of operation. i 4 |