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Show Most Powerful Radio Built by Americans PARIS. Aug. 14. The La Faette Wireless station near Bordeaux, designed design-ed and erected by American forces during the war, has been turned oer to the EVenoh government. It Is the most powerful plant In existence with double the range of the Annapolis Installation. In-stallation. The armistice found the station half completed and u the completion has I ten slow .'im the urgent need of It no longo, , xi.sted it is to be used os part cf tho comprehensive system planned by the French service for reaching ull Frond colonial points by wireless. Eight towers of Itmctural steel each . ithin 1 eery few feet of the Wool-worth Wool-worth building In height are grouped In two rows of four to support antennae an-tennae that cover an aerial surface about a mile long and a fourth of a mile wide. Each tower weighs 550 tons ai compared with a weight of 2100 tons for the Eiffel tower In Paris which Is only a fourth higher than thi Lb Eayettc structures The range of the Station Is more than 13.000 miles, halfway around the e.-:rth. Previously the largest French station was that at Lyons which works easily with New York, dally. |