In the Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth....
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