Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 19 April 1935, Page 8

Radio Round the World

ATEST use for cathode-ray tubes may supply a modern equivalent for the old English shop-sign. Inside bulbs about a foot long, are put fluorescent anodes worked into figures, such ias a boot, or a bleeding heart, or a ‘crown and anchor; these are in various colours, up to 400 different tints, ant¥ are made to glow under the impact of the electron streams. \ Vf USSOLINI wants every Italian village to have its own Wireless set, and has appointed the Secretary of the Fascist Party, Signor Starace, to be President of Radio Rurale, or the Rural Radio Corporation. ‘There are 50,000 rural schools, and the Government has decided that Radio Rurale must force the radio manufacturers to sell a five-valve set, the "Radio- | rurale," to schools at 600 lire; the cost must be borne by , the schools themselves, or by private persons. Th scheme has run eight months, but sd far only 3000 schools have sets, \ ) I= Nelson were alive to-day he would be an airman,-Captain Norman Macmillan.