Radio: Quicker Fox

Before television can turn its corner, it will have to secure from the FCC the wavelengths needed for commercial operation. With current experiments using a 6,000-kilocycle band for each picture transmitter, televisers would require such a hog's share of useful frequencies, that operators of other short-wave services (wireless communications, aeronautical radio, etc.) would fight. All this has the FCCommissioners pondering.

Think is the slogan of International Business Machines Corp., and last week I. B. M. representatives showed the commissioners a gadget which will make them think plenty. I. B. M. Radiotype Division General...

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