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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 5, 16 August 1929, Page 26

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[HE 21 stations of the B,B,O. operated for some 68,000 hours for the year 1928. At the end of the year 2,850,842 licenses had been issued, of which. 13,826 were gratuitous. — A RECENT innovation in India is a new type of car designed for patrol work on rough roads. It is armoured, and the wireless transmitter and receiver can be operated while on the move. 4 Mt) fees paid to certain Amentc can artists for their services over’ the air read like an extract ‘from the "Arabian Nights." Al Jolson receives £1000 for ‘a quarter of an hour in front of the microphone and. Paul. White man, the father of jazz orchestras, re ceives the same, The highest paic female stay is Fanny Brice, who re ceives £500 for five songs. ' N one of the first-class carriages in a train which left Milan on Friday. June 23, there had been installed a receiving set. This experiment was 4 great success, and proved very popula with the passengers. It has‘ been. de cided that radio is to be installed in all first-class. carriages as a rest of this successful trial.