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Vol.2 NOVEMBER, 1939 No. I

CREDIT UNION meeting held Tuesday, November 21, at 4:30 P.M. and, if the vote is favorable, AMENDMENT said vote must be submitted to the Bank Due to the fact that a few questions Commissioner. When his approval is have arisen regarding the proposed received the By-laws stand amended. amendment.to the By-laws of the G. R. Therefore, it may be a matter of a few Credit Union regarding joint accounts, weeks after the annual meeting before a general explanation would seem to be accounts may be changed over and new in order at this time. signature cards will be available to those It should be understood that taking wishing to have joint accounts. advantage of this amendment is entirely optional and no one is required to do so. (Copied from a recent issue of the This amendment would permit deposits - ntBoston Globe) being received in the names of two per Mr. and Mrs. Louis Frederick Buff of sons, payable to either or to the survivor. Brookline, formerly of Beacon Street, an Such deposits or any part thereof or any nounce the engagement of their daugh dividends thereon may be paid to either ter, Miss Laura Edith Buff, to Mr. Arthur such person or his assignee whether the Eastham Thiessen of Cambridge, son of other is living or not, provided they are Maj. and Mrs. Alfred H. Thiessen of not then attached at law and no written Arlington, Va. assignment has been received from either Miss Buffis a graduate of the Brimmer person. The main advantage of having School and the University of Wisconsin. a joint account and our primary reason Mr. Thiessen is a graduate of Johns Hop for proposing this amendment is, so that kins University and is a memberof Alpha in case of the death of a member (there Tau Omega fraternity. being no legal claims as stated above) the A recent study made of 163 of the survivor may withdraw the shares in the country's larger companies showed that account without having the estate pro they employed in 1938 an average of bated, which action generally withholds 2,854,382 persons. For each one of these payment for a considerable length of time. employees there was a tax of $576 The joint holders of the account have assessed by the various governmental mutual privileges of deposit or withdraw agencies ranging from municipalities to al except that no withdrawal may be made Federal Government. without presentation of the pass book. This enables the holder of the pass book The junior partner had been on a visit to control withdrawals. Only members to a distant branch office, and was §pr'mg who are employees of the General Radio his father a full account. "The manager Company may apply for loans. there," he said, "is apt to take too much Since the new joint holder is not con on himself. I gave him plainly to under stand he must get authority from here sidered a member of the Credit Union instead of acting too much on his own." in the true sense of the word but, as stated in the amendment, merely has the "Yes," said the senior dryly. "So I privilege of deposit or withdrawal, the gather. Here's a telegram from him." share limit will remain as at present, i.e., The telegram ran: "Office on fire. $4000.00. A joint account may be held Please wire instructions." by an employee and a minor. Two little boys were bragging about There will be no charge made for their fathers. Finally little Billy said, changing an account and duplicate pass "Why, my father is an Eagle, Elk, a books will not be issued. Moose and a Lion." It will be necessary for the members "Yeah," said his pal skeptically, "what to vote on this amendment at the annual does it cost to see him?" GENERAL RADIO NEWS

PERSONALS mer Barbara Taylor, secretary to Mr. Some of the mustaches sported by Richmond. our co-workers are curious things. We Although the article in last month's have most types represented somewhere news regarding Dollars and Sense was in the plant. A few are true mustaches very interesting and all that, it has created while the others might better be called quite a disturbance among some of the mistakes. Let us be charitable with these boys. They want a transfer to the de latter, however and assume that the wear partment in which there are two pays ers never look in a mirror. There is also in the pay envelope! the possibility that they are the result of With all due apologies to John Park losing a bet. If this is so, the owners and any other Maine worshippers, the have paid their bets in full and have National Park Arcadia was unintention learned their lessons. ally omitted. This park is the only one The First Annual Outing of the G. R. situated on the seacoast. Electrical Inspectors was held on Colum A few nights ago, Ray Searle, the bus Day at the young Fred Howland bowling flash, was in the groove, the left ranch in Bedford, Mass. The Wade and hand groove (gutter to you). Henuset families attended; and everyone Bill Hart has-been teaching Ray Searle enjoyed the mammoth hot dog and ham- some of the fine points of Ping Pong at burg barbecue. his home in Lexington. Ray is doing L. B. Arguimbau becomes the 1939 fairly well according to Bill, but seems G. R. Golf Champion by virtue of his to be having difficulty hitting the ball. win over E. H. Locke. Dan Hunt won He hits the air and the table and every the consolation flight after a close victory thing within swatting distance but not over Chet Newell. And finally, Warren the elusive ball. Good old patient Bill. Newell became the number one scape Ken Pratt gaveus a fine treat by show goat by losing all his matches in the ing his books of the New York Fair match-play handicap elimination. pictures taken this summer. The pic Warren Webster and Horatio Lamson tures showed very good balanceand care had quite a squabble in the Lab the ful planning of the subject matter. other day. On Horatio's questionnaire To encourage contributions by our the majority favored a caterer and home readers, we are offering a subscription to talent while Warren's favored a night the News (delivered in the usual man club for the winter party. Both men ner) for the best article accepted each claimed the other used coercion, or filled month. The board of editors will be in all the check marks himself. the judges and their decisions will be The report is that Dave Martin and final. Herman are still working on their tele Lincoln Hatch has joined the produc scopes. tion office staff. Merrill Hobart wishes to thank the What "Scotchman" from Dept. W News for publishing that crack about was introduced by the master of cere his new car in the October issue. Marg monies of a Boston Night Club recently let him drive it again just to disprove as 50 years old and direct from Scotland? the article. As we go to press the Morey twins Carl Woodward sent his rifle to Win have pertussis (whooping-cough). We chester to have his new telescopic sight hope they make a rapid recovery. mounted. He wants to go hunting next Ann Werner spent the week-end of week so he wants his rifle. He hopes Oct. 11 in New York and while there that Winchester meets their promise dates attended the World's Fair. better than our Service Department. November is the month in which six Clint says, "Any one who wishes to girls in the office have birthdays. There see his 'misplaced' must furnish their will probably be the customary birthday own microscope." celebration. Announcement has been received of Renewing acquaintances around the the birth of a daughter, Barbara Lou, to plant recently were Jack Lamson and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eastman. Mrs. Ferd. Schaller. Jack is general manager Eastman will be remembered as the for of a large dairy farm in Conn, and Ferd. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

is located with a prominent x-ray con BUSINESS cern in Baltimore. r The last three months have certainly Ken. Pratt has a good detail picture shown a variety of business weather. of the new overpass on the Drive show First, we had August which was a record ing construction underway. Ken's hobby month for recent years, with new orders is taking snaps and has a very nicecollec totaling $131,700. In addition to Sep tion also of the New York World's Fair. tember being a poor month, it was neces What is there to this rumor we have sary to cancel $15,000 of orders that had heard about a certain well known fore been written up during August. This man on the first floor? cancellation was due solely to war con Anyone having an old furnace not in ditions, and all cancellations were for use please see Bid. Allen. foreign shipments. After these cancella Paul Boucher, employed in the In tions we only had a net of new orders spection Department, was married Octo booked of $55,000, the swing between ber 12 to Miss Jeanette La Pointe of Man August and September being one of the chester, N. H. They are making their most violent since the war days of 1918. home in Somerville. We have been very fortunate, however, Miss Margery MacMasters of our Com during October, and have had several mercial Department has returned to her good breaks. Orders that had been duties after a sick leave of several pending for some time, including some weeks. foreign ones, were placed, and it looks as C. H. Macintosh, who was recently if the month would close with new busi operated on at the Baker Memorial Hos ness of about $120,000. Should this pital, is now recuperating at his home. materialize, it would give an average for His many friends wish Mac a speedy re the past three months of just over covery and hope to see him back with $100,000, which with work on the Gov us soon. ernment contract takes our full capacity. WAR NEWS It was very comforting to have October It is quite a coincidence that the first show up so well, and gives considerable two warships of the Royal Navy to be courage for the future. We must not sunk by the Germans should be con lose sight, however, that war conditions nected with our Machine Shop. Fred are unstable conditions, and we must al Pettitt who served from 1914 till 1926 ways be prepared for rapid changes. with the British Fleet was in action dur ing the last war several times aboard the H. H. Hollis had an interesting time Courageous from 1916 to 1919. recently while at the University of Penn After the surrender of the German sylvania to supervise the installation of High Seas Fleet, he was drafted to a G. R. Frequency Standard. After lo H. M. S. Royal Oak and after six months cating a person who knew where the was sent to Persia but was captured by instruments were he found that the the Bolsheviks at Baku and was re building was the one building of the warded with eight months in a Russian new group of five which did not have an "Cooler." Bill Blyth who left us to go elevator. By proper procedure he was to Cleveland also served aboard the Royal finally able to get two W. P. A. laborers Oak with Fred. to help him. Ask Fred if he wants any more war— After carrying the instruments and but don't wait for the answer. cabinets up three flights of stairs a union representative appeared on the scene and Husband: "Darling, what has hap informed "J°-J°" tnat ^e tw0 laborers pened ? Why have you that plaster over could not put in the screws which hold your eye?" the instruments in the rack. That, it Wife: "Plaster? That's my new hat." seems, was a carpenter's job and required a union carpenter. "Jo-Jo" could do no ADVERTISEMENT work of any kind as he did not have a Order now for the holiday season union card. To get a union carpenter fancy assorted chocolates and hard candy. was a job in itself and wasted more time, See Paul Lewis in the stock room. but finally a carpenter arrived and pro- GENERAL RADIO NEWS ceeded to turn in the 120 odd panel on the flames, first wrapping about you screws. a rug, bedding, or heavy draperies if they The result of all this was that "J°-J°" are at hand. Water will not extinguish spent three days at a job which normally oil. Use wet blankets or earth. Smear would take a half a day. burns, without blisters, generously with grease. But the severe burn should be The GRMBA held a meeting the covered only with a clean cloth which other day to discuss the Winter Party. has been dipped in strong tea. Grease As usual there was not a quorum but by hinders further treatment. When a large estimating the number in the buildings, area is burned (a fourth of the body) those in the yard and the proxies, things cut clothing away if necessary, and keep went along in a good parlimentary man the patient in a consistently warm bath ner. It's a good thing there are none till the doctor comes. of those sticklers for law in the GRMBA THE HEAD of an unconscious per that are sometimes found haunting lodge- son should be turned on the side so that rooms. If the attendance gets anysmaller his relaxed tongue will not obstruct we'll have to give a door prize, souvenirs breathing. Should he show signs of to the ladies, and run dish night to stimu choking, hokMiis tongue in place by late interest. Something is going to means of tweezers, spoon, fork, finger, happen at one of those small meetings pencil, or stick. some night and those conspicuous by INCLUDE the medicine cabinet in their absence will lose out. In fact at the your fall house cleaning. Discard old last meeting a member made a motion bottles of medicine. Some medicines that those present (10 or 11) go over lose strength and others become more town and have a practice party on the concentrated. Dedicate a shelf to ban GRMBA. This was quickly seconded dages, adhesive tape, gauze, iodine, boric but, though he had a willing look in his acid crystals, soda bicarbonate, and aro eyes, Fred wouldn't put it to a vote. matic spirits of ammonia. Include an Wanted when the entertainment com ointment that contains tannic acid for mitteecalls: Actors, script writers, ideas, burns. enthusiasm, cooperation and more en A TEAKETTLE can be made to fill thusiasm for the best show ever given by the bill when an inhalation is ordered. the gang. Make a megaphone out of wrapping LIBRARY NOTES paper. Insert the small end in the spout A large number of the books in the of the teaketle. Place your nose and library have nowbeensupplied withpock mouth near the large end of the mega ets for charging-cards, and it will be wise phone from which steam issues. Water for those taking out books to look before should be boiling before medication is signing the old-fashioned slips. The added. 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Vol. 2 DECEMBER, 1939 No. 2

RED CROSS DONATIONS lary insurance and $22.50 for the Treas The Red Cross received $92.25 from urer's bond. GR employees in the annual roll-call just As anticipated last Spring dividend completed. The very pleasant, tactful rates of most Co-operative Banks have and energetic solicitation by Miss Werner been reduced l/2% thereby affecting our and Miss Ellinwood signed up more largest source of income. We invested members than ever before. $1800. during the Summer in Co-oper This good showing was made in spite ative Bank shares and deposited $2000. of some adverse "information" that was in Savings Banks which partly replaced circulating, particularly regarding the the $3500. withdrawn from savings ac salary of the president of the American counts a year and a half ago. Co-oper Red Cross. It is true that his salary is ative bank dividends totaled $268. and $75,000 per year, but it is paid by the Savings Bank interest added $55. to our taxpayers, since the president of the Red income. Fines' totaled $2.04 or $.59 less Cross is Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is not than last period. publicly known what the income of Share accounts increased over $5000. Norman Davis and other top men in the during the past 6 months to a new high organization amounts to, but the Red of $33,700. making our total assets Cross pays them $1 per year. $35,400. Personal loan balances have You may be interested to know that increased a little over $300. to $6700. 50c of each membership goes to national The dividend rate of 3V^% took headquarters for use in disasters wherever $522.78 of our net income while the they occur. The balance, including all last dividend payment of 41/2% took contributions, stays in the local com $577.80. An average dividend rate for munity. Miss Watkins of the Cambridge the year of 4% indicates that our ac chapter, 42 Brattle Street, invited us to tivities are yielding an enviable return. drop in at any timeto learn what they do There is no guarantee that a contin with their time and money. uance of this high dividend rate will be Since the Red Cross operates under a possible and while we are naturally op charter from Congress, a complete ac timistic all indications are that future counting and report is made each year payments may be less due to the fact that to Congress, which report is, of course, loans will not increase in ratio with our publicly available. share accounts. However, the primary purpose of Credit Unions is to help those CREDIT UNION REPORT who find it necessary to borrow money The annual meeting of the G. R. Credit and not to set up an investment field that Union was held November 21st and for will yield high returns and so no one the edification of those who failed to should be too greatly concerned at a attend a general outline of the last six slightly reduced dividend so long as we months' business follows. don't reduce the service we may extend Altho the dividend rate for the last six to our members as a whole. months was 1% lower than the 4y2% declaredin May the inference is erroneous in that the normal income for the two A farmer boy and his best girl were periods was almost the same. Net income seated in a buggy one evening in town, was $597. against $712. for the preced watching the people pass. Nearby was a ing 6 months, which incuded $123. re popcorn vender's stand. ceived from the Everett Co-operative Presently the lady remarked, "My! Bank when 10 shares held by us ma that popcorn smells good." tured last November. "That's right," said the gallant. "I'll Expenses for the period totaled $33. drive up a little closer so you can smell including premiums of $8.00. for burg it better." GENERAL RADIO NEWS

What's in a Name: Several of the boys and girls seem to To HUNT a BOUSQUET of BATCH- have acquired new or newer cars of late. ELDER buttons, a man without a PENNY We welcome two new Northeastern WADES in the PARK. Out all night Co-Op students to G. R., J. R. Whitford, ROHMAN, a MUSGRAVE offence, not sophomore, and Edwin J. Parssineu, mid WORTHEN the trouble; when he got dles HOLM the LOCKE was set. His wife The new member of our Standardiz putting the LEIGHTON said: HOW- ing Laboratory Staff is Robert J. Rup- LAND here, UHLENDORF in the lenas, Lowell Institute '39. He comes to river." To HATCH a PETTITT and us after 4y2 years with Northern Indus CORKUM excuse, he said "I SHER trial Chemical Company. WOOD seem GROSS to RITCEY you." We see that a new attempt is being She tries to LANZA SHARPE blow but made to ventilate the Doctor's office or he TURNER around and PARLEE it. something. She CHASEd him to the FIELD saying: What well known G. R. bowler thinks "I SHAW WOOD have you HUNT that the pins are parked on the chande over HILL and dale at my BECK and liers? CROWE rather than here doing a Here's one! FAVRE keeping the WOLFRUM the 1-"Hf 1 + 1 = 5 door. W. H. Fish. Solution: 1 red light plus 1 traffic cop plus 1 judge = $5.00. PERSONALS For proof ask Louis Zolot. We are looking forward to seeingMac with us within a week or two. NOVEMBER SHOWERS Our best wishes go to Harold Erb, The response to the suggestion that a who wasrecently injured in an automobile miscellaneous shower be given Arthur accident. His address for the present is Edgecomb was so overwhelming that it the Central Hospital, Somerville, where exceeded our most optimistic expecta visiting hours are 2-4 and 7-8 daily. tions. A total of 55 gifts was received Be discreet about your conversations that included books, shirts, puzzles, when Bob. La Porte is within "earing" games, toilet articles and others of every distance. He is the new G. R. News description. Reporter replacing J. Johnson, who has If Arthur receives half as much en ablysupported the staff for the past year. joyment from opening them as we did in Carl Woodward returned safely from planning what to get him, the next his hunting trip. He hopes to get a month will be anything but a dreary one chance to try out his new rifle on a deer for him. next year. To those who gave so much of their Ray Searle is still taking ping pong time to managing the shower and to lessons from Bill Hart. wrapping the packages attractively we all Herman Ausin's new Buick is a beau give our thanks. tiful sight. It runs, too! It's a lot of fun making someone else Bill Hart is still collecting wall paper happy, isn't it? sample books. In spite of the item in the October LETTERS OF THE MONTH! News, we do seem to be seeing a good Dear Sir: deal of Argy lately. In fact we're prac Just a question as to the operation of tically having an epidemic of him. The the Type 200 CM Variac dimmer which M. I. T. dignity—if any—doesn't seem we purchased. When connected to to be catching. our equipment we got the following re Sh!! Randall Alexander and Clint. sults. With the toggle switch at "OFF" it Carlisle are housekeeping. dimmed our equipment beautifully from Department W is still running thesame full out at 130, to full on at 0. But old arguments. when the toggle switch was at "ON" we We saw our own happy expressions found the lights, which were full on, mirrored in the faces of our fellow em would not dim out. Is this the regular ployeeson November first. way for this dimmer to work? Is there GENERAL RADIO NEWS

a way to switch the dimmer off and have BUSINESS the lights out, instead of on ? Is it some October captured the prize for new accident of our setup that would do that business with a total of $146,246, of to the Variac? which $62,107 was foreign. This was But despite this problem we do like the the largest amount of foreign business wayit dims out the lights. We marvelled since February, 1937, which month in at the controlwe had over the setup. We cluded a very large order from Russia. hope that in the near future we can in It was again a large order for Russia that stall a much more complete setup of your gave October the boost, and it accounted Variacs. If we can't install an entire for about one-third of the foreign busi system at once, we will gradually add to ness for the month. Another large and what we are forced to use now, from time unusual order came from Holland. The to time. other foreign business was below normal. About a week later we received this Domestic business was good, and it has letter: shown an upward trend ever since last In reply to your letter of November 10, spring. we have discovered the fault of our wir November promises to be another ing system that disrupted the action of good months With the figures for five the Variac dimmer. We are now getting business days still to be added, the total perfect results. for new orders has already reached We have also received your replace $96,900. ment Variac dimmer and have decided to keep it. I, therefore, enclose a check for $17.50to payfor it. STABILIZED EMPLOYMENT Stabilized employment is difficult to THE DESIGNERS maintain when business fluctuates as (Sad Song from the Industrial Front) much as ours does. If people are hired The designer bent across his board, promptly during every busy period, Wonderful things in his head were somebody will have to be let go or we all stored, go on short time as soon as business slack And he said as he rubbed his throbbing ens up a little. bean, Since it seems better for all concerned "How can I make this thing tough to to smooth out the ups and downs without machine?" making too many temporary increases in If this part here were only straight our organization, every possible improve I'm sure the thing would work first rate. ment in planning and distribution of But 'twould be so easy to turn and bore work must be put into effect when we It never would make the machinists sore. are busy. It also goes without saying I better put in a right angle there that the willingness shown throughout Then watch those babies tear their cap, the company to pitch in and help some Way down in here where they're hard to one who is temporarily snowed under is tap. of real value to us all. Now this piece won't work, I'll bet a buck, The following is taken from a table But it can't be held in a shoe or chuck. prepared by Babson's Reports Inc.: It can't be drilled or it can't be ground, "Wages Now Being Paid in a Large In fact the design is exceedingly sound. Chinese Factory Making Electrical He looked again and cried: "At last— Machinery" Success is mine; it can't even be cast." Daily Wage in Equivalent in Position Chinese $ U. S. Currency "Miss Epsom," said the colored parson Assistant Foreman $2.40 20 cents a day impressively, as he led her into the brook Machinist 1.44 12 cents a day for baptism, "I'se gwine lead you out Die Maker 2.00 16 cents a day inter dis heah stream, an' wash out every Plater 1.60 13 cents a day Assembly Man .64 5 cents a day spot of sin yo'se got." Coolie 1.20 10 cents a day "Lawsey, Parson," giggled the erst Electrician 1.92 16 cents a day while frolicsome damsel. "In that li'l We would like to call this to the at ole shallow creek?" tention of Bill Fish and his gang. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

SERVICE that containing serial number records. From time to time members of various When an instrument is shipped, a record departments have inquired concerning the is made of the type and serial numbers, procedure involved in the handling of date of shipment, customer's name, and complaints, especially from customers and associated equipment. If a complaint is agents abroad or at great distances from received, the serial number record is the factory. When an instrument is not checked to determine the shipping date returned, it is sometimes rather difficult and whether any previous complaints to restore it to its original electrical and have been received. Attached to the operating condition by sending informa serial number slip is a record of all com tion and replacement parts, if necessary. plaints, replacements, and repairs. This In the Service Department there are history is very useful in determining re various files, the most important of which pair charges, adjustments, and servicing is one containing as complete informa dates. tion as is available for all General Radio The other files in the Service Depart instruments, many of which are now ob ment enable us to determine immediately solete. Each folder contains wiring dia the prices of replacement parts, service grams, instruction books, design changes, instruments that are available for loan, testing specifications, advertising matter inventory of "Service stock of obsolete and reprints, engineering information, parts, instrument record by customers, data from departments and information repair charges by type numbers, record that has been collected from customers' of repairs in the shop, record of defec letters, repair of instruments and from tive parts or workmanship by type num the laboratory. bers, and service adjustments, charge or When a complaint is received, the no-charge, from 1934 to date. One can folder for the instrument is immediately realize the importance of these many taken from the files and all the informa files, especially when a customer is tele tion is gone over in an effort to learn phoning from a distant point requesting whether or not a similar complaint has immediate service on a defective instru ever been received and satisfactorily ad ment. justed. If not, then considerable time must be spent in determining what may Luke Packard recently returned from be causing the difficulty and a remedy a two week sales trip which included found. Unfortunately, in many cases in Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo sufficient information issentus andpend and Dayton. ing the receipt of further data we will advise a procedure that should be fol lowed in localizing the difficulty and No wonder the heart gets tired and remedies that might apply. quits; 37 million beats per year and To save time in handling complaints 2.4 billion in 65 years. It is hard to by correspondence, the Service Depart believe but the complete circulation of ment publishes Service Notes every two the blood—to the lungs and back, and months, sending copies to all our agents then through the body and back—takes and to customers who. may be having not over 30 seconds. difficulties with equipment, for which the Notes contain the corrective information. These Service Notes are compiled from Harold had taken his girl to lunch and the information data that have collected she had spoken to a nice looking man at in the instrument folders. While the the next table. "Is that man a friend of Service Notes represent a certain invest yours?" asked Harold. ment of time and money, it has been "Yes," she replied. proved many times that they are a saving "Well, why don't we ask him to join to both the company and the customer in us?" the prompt and efficient adjustment of "Oh, Harold this is so sudden," cooed complaints. the girl. Another important file that is used al "What's so sudden?" most as much as the instrument file is "Why—why—he's our minister!" "•"'• ' •••-.... '.;.-r ;

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Vol.2 JANUARY, 1940 No. 3

WINTER PARTY READING MATTER Altho* we can't guarantee snow this Because its contents may be of interest season in sufficient quantity to satisfy to members a copy of the "Pioneer", a everyone we can guarantee an evening of magazine published each month by the sufficient enjoyment to satisfy all who at Credit Union League of Mass., will be tend the Winter Party Saturday evening, placed in the Library. Its pages are de February 3rd, 1940 at the George Brown voted to articles relative to credit union Hall, 294 Huntington Avenue, Boston. activities throughout the state as well as This is the same place at which the last questions and answers on technical prob Winter Party was held. lems which should prove interesting as The dinner, which will be catered by well as educational. Thomas Smith of Swampscott, will be Recently added to the books in the served at 6:00 P. M. and, of course, libraryhave-been S. Grant Duff's "Europe promptness and an appetite are equally and the Czechs," published in 1938, and essential. A copy of the menu will be given by Claude Lyons in October, 1938; posted later Edgerton and Killian's "Flash"; the sev After dinner we shall retire to the au enteenth edition (1939) of the "Radio ditorium where at 8 o'clock, plus or mi Amateur's Handbook"; and the United nus the usual 15 minutes, the curtains StatesTariff Commission Report on "Syn will part to reveal a presentation of Gil thetic Resins and their Raw Materials." bert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury" by our These books will have a varying appeal to own group. The other theatres in Boston different members of the company, but and vicinity are planning to show that all are available for charging out in the evening as usual. usual way. Any amateur group ambitious enough Have you ever looked through the pile to present a Gilbert and Sullivan deserves and should receive much praise and en of book-announcements in the tray on couragement. This applies to the instru the table? mental as well as the vocal renditions both Have you noticed the adult education of which will be offered bythe employees. announcements, university extension an The few rehearsals which have been held nouncements, etc., usually posted on the to date promise no mean performance bulletin board or placed on the table? and we look forward to something spe These things may contain the course you cial. are interested in. Those whohave not had the opportun ity and still wish to take part in the en A candidate for the police force was tertainment will find a suitable spot in being verbally examined. the chorus. If you sing like Bing Crosby "If you were by yourself in a police or Kenny Baker or if you liketo singloud car and were pursued by a desparate gang you're justwhat wewantso limber up the of criminals in another car doing forty tonsils and courage and come to the next miles an hour along a lonely road, what rehearsal where you will be welcome. would you do?" The candidate looked puzzled for a The new fluorescent lights which have moment. Then he replied, "Fifty." been installed in several departments not only give better light but are more eco "How did you make your neighbor nomical to operate. These units supply keephis hens in his own yard?" a splendid illumination at a cost of 2.5 "One night I hid half a dozen eggs cents per day. The old lights supplied under a bush in my garden, and next day less than half the illlumination at a cost of I let him see me gather them. I wasn't 3.8 cents per day. bothered after that." GENERAL RADIO NEWS

PERSONALS The newest member of our Standard The address lists posted on the various izing Laboratory staff is Paul Litchfield. bulletin boards were a great help. In He lives in Brockton and is attending spite of this, only one of our greeting Lowell Institute. cards, from shop friends, was addressed Russ Hatch won the Christmas turkey correctly. with a pinfall of 339. With a handicap We certainly received a wonderful sur of 26, this gave him 365 to nose out Fred prise on the Thursday before Christmas. Stierli who had a total of 357. Those checks were beautiful things. Louis Zolot absent-mindedly left his There were no leaks, since no one in the car unlocked the other night when he plant had the slightest suspicion of what visited a hospital. The following morn was going to happen. Each face we saw ing when driving to work he found a was bisected by a broad grin for hours lady's handbag in the car. A perusal of after the presentation. One of the boys the contents revealed the lady's name. said he wished he hadn't bothered with When Louis returned the handbag he was high school so he would have been here in turn handed a reward. It seems the four more years! Another chap said the lady had mistaken the car for her own C. I. O. ought to hear about this. No and when she {pund her mistake was so onewondered what his friends got—since excited and in a hurry to get out that she it is all in the little blue book. We un left her handbag. derstand that the Credit Union lost some Louis really believes in a Santa Claus business. now. Dr. Roy E. Mabrey sailed from New Jack Morey, Jim Higginbotham and York Saturday, December 23rd, for George Surette attended a meeting of the Havana on the Nieuw Amsterdam. He Fellsway Radio Club and the Q.T.5 Club will returnfollowing the New Year holi Dec. 12 at George Bailey's house, vice day. president of the Radio Relay League. Herman Scott of th G. R. engineering Now that Harold Corkum has been staff was a guest speaker and gave a talk transferred to Murray's department, the 760 Noise Analyzer which was very Daniel Campbell is taking his place interesting to all, andbrought forth many sweeping on the top floor. questions. Ralph Jennings has been on our sick Glenn Browning gave a talk on Fre list this month and as we go to press is quency Modulation Receivers and Prof. at the Baker Memorial Hospital. We Gager of B. C. enlightened the group on hope to see him back with us soon. selective earphones. We are hearing good reports from Thursday Dec. 21,1939Jerry McLellan Harold Erb though he is still confined to washeard to say,with his best Scotchburr, the Central Hospital, Somerville. He has "If Mr. Locke is going to do this again certainly enjoyed the many visits from the 25 years from now, I'll be here." men here. Anyone wishing to visit Paul Penny, If you don't know the story this won't our staff artist, from now on will find him interest you. Hats off to the Nova Scotian in Dept. A, and speaking of transfers, College! Henry Christie has taken a step nearer to Mr. Eastham's office, namely, experimen Have you seen George Bickell's new tal dept. model locomotive ? It certainly isa beaut. A few more years work and it will be Dear Friends: completed. We wonder if his wife misses As a grand finale to a very enjoyable him. week-end, we bathed our dog Christmas Wesee by thepapers that Argy's influ night in self defense. He had royally en ence is being felt at M.I.T.—Earl Browder tertained little Johnnie Skunk under our spoke to a group of students. back porch. Theencounter didlittlegood to either animal, since the skunk was This is the season when people get somewhat chawed and BigBoy was slight stuck up—from the glue on greeting card ly asphixiated (so were we). Contrary envelopes and stamps. to the generalconception we did not have GENERAL RADIO NEWS to bury the dog for ten days—the bath and the engineering is completed, soon removed the aroma. enough. We don't see how weare going to put BUSINESS the porch into the tub, so we'll probably have to burn that. Thebloom seems to have passed off of We hope you all had as pleasant a the flurry of the past two months, but, nevertheless, orders have continued to Christmas as we did. Happy New Year. come in at a satisfactory rate. For the first two-thirds of December new orders Mary and Dud Chute. were $68,300, which would indicate "Dud" says "When dunking dogs in about §100,000 for the full month. This this condition, smoke an ancient pipe compares with $146,994 and $121,384 loaded with strong tobacco and you won't for October and November respectively. smell the skunk—much!" In any event, the total for the year has Bill Fish—please note one benefit of been most satisfactory, we start the new tobacco. year with a modest backlog of orders, and And now a few of the New Year's res at least no one can censor us here for olutions of some of the boys arein order. shouting loudly "Happy and Prosperous John Clayton resolves not to call Mit New Year..".,. chell on the phone unlessit is business of some kind. The movie stars are in receipt of a Bill Fish is not going to begin every chain letter from the Reno Prosperity explanation with the preamble, "Now Club, differing from most chain letters, here's the story". because it has a giggle in it. It reads: Louis Zolot will refrain from singing '"Drop the top name on the list of six that dehghtful Indian War ditty of his. names below, and add your name to the Joe Lanza promises to be more gener bottom. Send a copy of this letter to five ous with his newspaper this year. men friends; then bundle up your wife Charlie Guildpromises to say less about and send her to the person whose name howhe would do it during1940. heads the list. When your name works We expect to be "on the level in any to the top, you will receive 15,175 wives. business transaction this year." (Signed) Do not break this chain." . . . It's a 3 to 1 The Petersens. bet that 15,175 wives will break the guy No more loud talking—Bill Marvin. who doesn't break the chain. Most of the engineering will be com pleted before production, we promise. INTERESTING FACTS The engineers. It would take a half ton of candles to No more trying to redesign the stuff— ,produce the amount of light used month Assembly, Dept. A. ly by the average American family. A Bigger and better stories, I promise, half ton of candles would cost $346.65. McElroy. The average electric light bill for one "My golf scores will be accurate", family averages $2.50 a month. pledges Chet Newell. "If the count is Patents were first granted by the an 16 for a hole I'll even add the two to cient Greeks, who encouraged chefs to gether 1 -{-6 = 7". invent appetizing new dishes. Oil can be powdered. Hydrogenated Dept. A resolves to make better in oils are being powdered as fine as sugar; struments during 1940, providing draft many are odorless, tasteless, and do not ing and the stock room cooperates. spoil. We'll not let the cobwebs and dust According to the U. S. Chamber of coyer the parts in the inspection room Commerce, the average number of em this year—everything moves quickly— ployees in all U. S. factories is only 42, Bill Lewis. seven more than 25 years ago. Bickell resolves to answer the season's The last woman city mail carrier in the greetings with something other than United States quit her job at Anaconda, "Bah! hum bug!" Mont, last summer. She became a let The Lab resolves to meet due dates— ter carrier in 1918, trudged an eleven- if the instruments come from Dept. A, mile route every day she worked, trav- GENERAL RADIO NEWS

eled about 65,000 miles, and carried 283 G. R. HISTORY tons of mail. Postal regulations now pro The editors of the News would like to hibit women from working as city mail write a history of the General Radio Com carriers. pany and print a portion of this history "Watt" signifying electrical power unit every month. We can obtain much data was named for James Watt, Scotch en- from the company records but sidelights giner, who never made an electrical dis on various employees and executives covery in his life. would have to come from you therefore, Glass can be made more transparentby will everyone who remembers an inter plating it with thin films of chemicals. esting or humorous incident about the It is estimated that taxes amount to company or any member, past or present, $360 a year per family, or about $30 a please give this, information to anyone on month. the News staff, i.e. remember the dough Facts are our scarcest raw material. nut factory at the corner? This is shown by the economy with which we use them. One has to dig deep for Herwy Dowden, having bought his them because they are as difficult to get own Christmas present, a complete ski as they are precious to have. outfit, says he .doesn't think there is The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. much to the artj and is going to show the boys how it is done. A Communist is one who believes in the equal sharing of unequal earnings. Just a reminder—So far the weather An expert economist is a man who man has been very good to those inter knows all about finance and politics, but ested in the parking situation, but we gets himself in a hopeless mess trying to can't hope for this ideal weather much untangle a twisted telephone cord. longer. So please, when we do have Late News Flash—Martin Gilman is snow making parking more of a problem, the latest G. R. employee who is soon to endeavor to park with some thought of become a benedict. The engagement of your fellow workers. Miss Mildred Hermine Halfmann to Martin A. Gilman was announced last Recently Bill Fish was talking to Harry week at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Chute, who in pausing to speak to Bill Halfmann at their home in New York failed to shut off an electric drill that City. he had been using. In some unaccount able manner the drill caught in Harry's Gus Anderson seems to be having shirt and proceeded to twist and bore in troubles with his new car. Two days the customary way. Quick action by Bill after he had it the door lock stuck, re in tearing the drill from Harry's hands quiringthe aid if the police to break one may have saved the company the loss of of the small side windows to get inside. a 10-32 insert to fill a hole in Harry's Later on Gus got tangled up with an chest. other driver with a resulting crumpled rear mud guard. It is very encouraging to attend any of the rehearsals for the coming bigshow One Guy: "Did you mark that place and note the enthusiasm of those taking where the fishing was so good?" part. They are doing a fine job under Guy Two: "Yes, I put an X on the the able and helpful direction of Ruth side of the boat." Crowe. First Guy: "That's silly. What if we should get another boat?" Opportunity—Anyone desiring to swap unwanted Christmas presents, get in The grocer's daughter went to a mas touch with Dud Chute at the G. R. Trad querade ball and met her father there. ing Post. "Hullo, Dad," she said, "How do you This and other mediocre items areyour like my costume? I'm a salad." own fault. If more people would con "It's nice, my dear," replied her father. tribute we wouldn't have to print such "But haven't you forgotten thedressing?" drivel. MlW lM\fii * w

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Vol.2 FEBRUARY, 1940 No. 4

GENERAL RADIO MUTUAL SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT ASSOCIATION Under the provisions of the Social At the Annual Meeting of the Security Act and the Massachusetts Un G. R. M. B. A. held on January 3, 1940, employment Compensation Law, pay the following officers were elected for ments have now been made into the Un this year: employment Fund for four full years. President: R. E. LaPorte During this period the company has con Vice President: C. A. Batchelder tributed $50,480.59 and the employees Secretary: Elinor Clapp $5,302.50, or a total of $55,783.09. Al Treasurer: Anne Werner though exact figures are not available, a Assistant Treasurer: F. L. Tucker maximum estimate of the amount al Directors: Warren Newell lowed as benefits to our former em C. Whitehead ployees is $600. The law has recently James Lundgren been: amended to reduce unemployment Investigating Committee: contributions, particularly for companies W. H. Sherwood able to stabilize employment. W. H. Fish Old Age contributions have been made Frances Ellinwood by both the company and employees in equal amounts for three years, for a total COMMUNITY FUND of $24,811.99, of which to date only The early returns indicate that we are about $200 has been returned as bene again going to hold up our end of the fits. It should be remembered, of Campaign. course, that a credit is being builtup for General Radio is in the Radio Manu each individual contributor to the fund, facturers Group, which is part of the to be used in the payment of death or Automotive Division, which in turn is retirement benefits later. part of Industry & Finance. Although the money all goes into the same fund, there is considerable rivalry between the ESPIONAGE various groups, and in an attempt to get Recently you may have seen a notice good coverage a great many people are posted on the bulletin boards concerning solicited at both home and at work. the secrecy of Government contracts and Since everybody here is pretty busy about the Espionage Act. In order to we are trying to do our part of the Cam keep confidential as many details as pos paign with a minimum of follow-up sible concerning the National defense, work. It would be appreciated, there Congress passed an Act in 1917 making fore, if the pledge cards would be turned it a felony for anyone to disclose informa in as soon as possible, whether or not tion which might in some way be injuri you want to pay your pledge immediately. ous to the United States or of assistance Even if you do not want to contribute to a foreign power. In times of general anything through the company, it would peace there is little incentive for foreign help if you would leave the pledge card, Governments tofind out what their neigh blank if you prefer, with one of the fol bors are doing in theway of National de fense, but in times of general unrest the lowing committee members: plans of other countries may become very Paul Hanson Janet Cole valuable. Although the United States is Frances Ellinwood Bill Fish notnow at war andin all probability will Charles Riemer Everett Page not be, its military activities are never Anne Werner Dave Martin theless of considerable interest to foreign Austin Corkum Elizabeth Mitchell Governments. Consequently, the Gov If you have already made a pledge, ernment is taking steps to keep to itself (hank you. those activities having to do with the GENERAL RADIO NEWS National defense. Some of the equip we are assured by the Navy Department, ment which we have manufactured in the add up to a rather formidable barrier past and are now making is directly con against espionage activities, and are well nected with the National defense and, worth the trouble. therefore, comes under the provisions of the EspionageAct. The Act itself is long LIBRARY NOTES and is written in the usual legal jargon. The following issues of magazines In condensedand more easily understand regularly bound are missing from the able form its provisionsare these: library and cannot be accounted for: General Electric Review, September, a) Anyone is guilty of violating the 1939. law who enters upon Government prop Instruments, January, 1939 erty or who goes into a factory where March, 1939 war materials are being made with the Journal of the Society of Motion deliberate intent of gaining information Picture Engineers, August, 1939. which would be useful to a foreign Gov QST, February, 1939. ernment or harmful to the United States. March, 1939. b) Anyone who deliberately sets Radio, January, 1939. about to disclose to a foreign Govern ^February, 1939. ment or to one of its representatives mili May, 1939. tary information with the idea that this We would appreciate every effort in information might be helpful to the for locating these missing numbers and re eign nation is guilty of violation. turning them to the library. There are several other sections to the Act relating to conspiracies to violate the MOVIES! law, the harboring or concealing of vio What are they for? lators ; and other legalprovisions concern Are you going to take the whole de ing the jurisdiction of court-martials, mil partment? itary commissions, and the definition of Will We see them? a foreign Government, which is defined What kind of film do you use? in its usual sense, but the important part How much? of the lawis in the twoparagraphs above. What kind of a camera is that? How much? The penalties for the violation of the Say, I took some pictures the other Espionage Act are severe, involving fines night with flood lights, and the etc. up to $10,000 and prison terms up to Wait 'til I comb my hair (what hair) twenty years. In time of war, violation and fix my tie. of the Act is considered to be the act of a Are you going to take movies of our spy and is punishable by death. It was, department? of course, the intent of the Government What kind of lens on the camera? to write a law which clearly defines what Are the movies for record ? is meant by a spy, that is, one who inten Did you get me in the movies? tionally gives out information with the Will we see them at the Winter Party ? definite ideaof jeopardizing the National defense in any way. I DON'T KNOW. SEE "CLAYTON." Casual remarks concerning the fact that There is a large hole in Concord Ave we have a Government job in process, or nue, in front of the Cambridge Sani even that it is a job concerning radio, tarium, which has been there for months. would be neither illegal nor unpatriotic. Now and then a gang of men go through The whole idea of the thing is to make it the motions of working in or around said as difficult as possible for a foreign Gov hole. They seem to be trying to bury a ernment to get any information about the brook or something. In front of the hole defenseplans and activities of the United is a sign saying "SLOW CONSTRUC States. As far as General Radio is con TION AHEAD" and when they say slow cerned, few of our activities are of a mil construction they certainly mean it. The itary nature except those directly con real purpose of this mess is to keep a de cerned with some Government contracts. tour around the detour around the con Taken altogether, the little precautions, struction on the Alewife Brook Parkway. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

BUSINESS punitive expedition to retrieve her. Some Through January twenty-third new time later Flora wandered away and was orders written amounted to $86,300, thus found in the Lab. Next they missed indicating a satisfactory total for the Daisy and found her in Department A. month. While the future sales outlook Then Flora was missing—she turned up is still clouded by war conditions, our atDepartment SM. Daisy was kidnapped own production outlook for the near fu and the boys found a ransom note asking ture continues to be good. twenty-five cents for her return. They got her back without paying the money. PERSONALS As we go to press both girls are back All you old married men lend me where they belong. You can't blame your ears and your laughs. It seems that them for running away—it must be tough a newly married man had to pry out two to associate with that gang all the time. single men ona Sunday togoskiing. Are Everett Lewis' tools disappeared and they all washed up and how! were later recovered. It is rumored that Dr. and Mrs. M. T. Easton left Jan this is in retaliation for Daisy's kid uary 24th by auto for a trip to Kentucky napping. and thence to Miami before their return. What popular young bachelor of the Harold Erb was transferred the first of Lab. staff burns up the Worcester Pike January to Baker Memorial where accord in his Oldsmobile regularly (he should ingto allreports he is making satisfactory carry a life boat). A cynic might ask if progress. any girl is worth a hundred miletrip. As we go to press Martin Gilman is There was quite a squabble in the recovering from La Grippe at Baker. Lab. on the day that the boys all wore Don Stanley returned to work the 25th rubbers. It seems that all the rubbers after having been absent for two weeks. fit everybody except Herman Ausin. Ralph Jennings is expected back to Hobart finally had to wade in with his work soon having been under the care of baseball bat and make them settle their Dr. Barr for several weeks. argument peaceably. The many friends of "Warn" (as Mr. Instead of cuttingout paperdolls now Wambold is called) are glad to see him adays, insane asylum inmates make hats. back to work. SEE ALL OF YOU AT THE WIN Of interest to many G. R. employees TER PARTY SATURDAY, FEB. 3RD. was the recent marriage of Marjorie New employees at General Radio in Jones to Roger Thwing which took place clude L. Graham, D. Campbell and F. S. in Winchester December 31st. Page working under Paul Hanson; P. H. Since his return from a cruise to Ha Wellman Jr. and P. J. Allen in Comrie's vana, Dr. Mabrey is advocating winter Department and J. Whitehead in Ray vacations. While he was enjoying a few Searle's Department. holes of golf we were wondering where Harry Goodall is convalescing at the we hadstored thesnow shovel last spring. Baker Memorial following a recent op An incident which Dr. Mabrey reports eration. is that regardless of the temperature the Frank Tucker copped the lowest bowl Cubans never go swimming during the ing score the other Monday night and winter months. then comes the big news about his new One of the stockroom laddies says: "I baby, Dick. Guess he was bowling under can lick any guy in the joint" whenever a handicap. Now the big idea is to pry he enters the Lab. We wonder if this into the private lives of these low scorers includes Big Sandy? and who knows, we may get some more Have you heard about the sweethearts news! Then again we wonder how about of the Winding Department? Flora is a the high scorers. charming dancer and Daisy, a beauteous A letter from Arthur Edgecomb dated country lass; and they are the apples January 22 sounds encouraging. He of the department's eye. Evidently the writes that he is able to get up for two girls have the wanderlust because Daisy meals now rather than the one. Tem disappeared one night. They found her perature at Rutland hovers between six in the Bridge Room and dispatched a above to six below. In signingoff Arthur GENERAL RADIO NEWS says he hopes to visit us in March and low the Eastern Steamship Pier. If you will we give him a cheer when we see come down by train, get off the subway him. Hurry up, Arthur, and keep your at Wall Street from Grand Central Sta promise. tion or at Cortlandt Street from Penn Sta Recent arrivals to G. R. members and tion. Cortlandt Street is New York's their families include a son, Charles Jr. to radio row, by the way, where you can see Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Riemer on December most anything the industry has to offer 23rd; a daughter, Carolyn Noel, to Mr. on sidewalk display. andMrs. G. H. Sharp on' December 27th; We share the office with Mr. L. C. F. and a son, Richard, to Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Horle, this year's president of the I. R. E. Tucker on January 16th. Somehow MissMargaret Joyce, our secre Jo-Jo Hollis had better look to his tary, manages to do a three-quarter day's laurels. Last Thursday about five-thirty job for each of us. If you should drop some of the late leavers noticed a blaze in to us on a busy day, you might find which appeared to be in the shipping Mr. Horle awarding the type number for room. By the time anyone else could get a new tube (we understand there have there Albert Wallen had already made been a few lately) and rounding up a effective use of a fire extinguisher and technical committee for this year's I. R. E., the fire was practically out. It may have while Miss" Joyce is supplying catalogs been caused by a cigarette butt carelessly to two waiting customers, managing not thrown into the waste barrel. General to buy the latestin an office dictionary or Radio has been very fortunate in that all in men's handkerchiefs (just the thing for fires to date have been small and in a swell birthday gift), convincing a expensive, but it should be evident to small Brooklyn shop that the factory everyone that a real fire here is not im really did send out that order for two possible. WATCH YOUR SMOKING. potentiometers yesterday afternoon, and, We see that Harry Chute has moved at the sametime,getting in a little typing. again. He alternates between the third I would be waiting, while a visiting Ori and fourth floors quite regularly now. ental remembers with the aid of an inter Why couldn'this benches be replaced by preter the voltage and frequency of the strings of tea wagons? He could hook power line on which he wishes to use a them together to work, and unhook them Variac when he returns to Indo-China. to move. Let me confess at once that life is not The rumor that John Blake is a fast always like this, but there is a bit of zest and furious car driver has been discred in a job where such goings-on may hap ited by one who rides to and from work pen without so much as five minutes with him. This party claims that Austin notice. cars have no difficulty whatsoever to pass A good deal of the time is spent, as it Blake. What's the matter, John, losing should be, in the routine business of that eagle eye? keeping up with the mail, of preparing It has been rumored around that Tom quotations, of obtaining information for Palmer and Ken Pratt are going to join Cambridge, and of digging up the an the boys this summer in their golf swers to technical questions from pros matches. pective customers. A number of prob NEW YORK NOTES lems have come up which I haven't been Fred Ireland says it is about time able to find the answers to. I have never that he stopped promising and sent in a been more serious when I say that any word or two fom our New York Office. and all suggestions will be welcome, We understand that the engineers hear light or serious as the problems may be. from him occasionally and that Miss Wer But enough of that for now, for you'll ner gets those expense accounts regularly, be more interested to hear of what goes but sometimes we wonder just what goes on in the big city, and we can end up on in the big city. But, lefs turn this with some of the contents of that "un over to him and see what he has to say. solved problems" file. GR in New York is on the 15th floor {Watch for more New York notes of 90 West Street—about three blocks be next month.) r I JUST BOUWT TH£S£ SKIS /WD I WW JO Ttl TMErt OUT THE BlKT^y ?mi A I Wat Cftis 4Mj7Bt«s ecwyt aim. <&>»«-' |W"tff/^.WWr7tfH#^ /Jiffy 00WW 7>- /WftsWff TfeKEP M8W fflWE, /M8J0B? RE6A^ ffijW0 A68WT, JW? 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Vol.2 MARCH, 1940 No. 5 COMMUNITY PUND agencies, and we hope to be able to work The General Radio Company and its out some procedure whereby General employees helped the Community Fund Radio will get credit for all of our con Campaign go "over the top" by contrib tributions without making it any harder uting$1,503 (Company $500, Employees for the home town campaign indicators $1,003) through the Radio Manufactur to go "over the top." ers Group, in addition to a substantial amount given by various members of our "NOT LICKED" organization through neighborhood can I have failed in a thousand cases vassers. ButI still have the heart to try; We received 152 pledges this year com I am scarred in a hundred places, pared to 123 last year, and although we No darling of luck am I! did not have the pleasure of turning in In many a crucial hour pledges this year for some of last year's I have hoped/ and been scorned and important contributors, the increases from kicked; others more than made up the losses. As But never has Fate had power was true last year, slightly more than one- To convince me that I was licked. half the employees' contributions came from 6 pledges. Part of the success of I have trusted and been mistaken; this year's Campaign can be credited to My friendship has been betrayed; improved business, but better understand I have struggled alone, forsaken, ing of the Community Fund and its work By men who have had myaid; also had its effect. When it isappreciated I have listened to those who flattered, that about 300,000 persons areto be bene Their motives misunderstood, fited during 1940 by the funds raised in But my faith has remained unshattered; the Campaign, everyone who contributed I believe in the ultimate good. should get real satisfaction out of having helped. I ask for no unearned pleasure, We have been asked by Community No pathway thro' flowery lanes; Fund headquarters not only to thank I offer a full, fair measure those at General Radio who contributed Of effort for all of mygains; so generously, but to pass along any criti I'll try, though thepace may begrilling, cisms or suggestions our group might Nor whine if I'm tripped or tricked, make regarding the Campaign. It is rec As long as my soul's unwilling ognized that mistakes have been made in To let me believe I am licked. the past, but a sincere effort is being made BRAIN TEASERS to correct them. Since it is not too early Product of first two digits equals to begin planning for next year, please product of last two. give any helpful ideas you might have on Number formed by first two digits di the subject to one of the committee mem vided by middle digit is the number bers or to Frank Tucker. formed by last two. One thing we hope to have settled by Also, sum of first two digits plus next year is the problem of whether to middle digit is thesum of last two digits. give at home or through the Company. What five digit registration number is Some companies insist that all pledges be this? made through the company with proper Here is a problem in addition: credit going to the employees' home SEND towns. Others request a report from all MORE those who contribute at home. It is ap parently of value to a company and its MONEY employees to be favorably known to the What number does each letter repre Community Federation and its member sent? GENERAL RADIO NEWS

PERSONALS "THE TEN DEMANDMENTS" A gang from the plant had a day's 1. Don't lie. It wastes my time and skiing the other Saturday up in New yours. I am sure to catch youin the end, Boston, N. H. All those, either limping and that is the wrong end. or battle scarred, in the plant Monday 2. Watch your work, not the clock. were among those present. They looked A long day's work makes a long day like the last of Cox's army when they ar short; and a short day's work makes my rived home and a cloud of liniment fumes face long. followed each skiier for days. To top it 3. Give me more than I expect, and all they are going again soon. Moral: I will give you more than you expect. I A fool and his skiis are never parted. can afford to increase your pay if you Happy Sitzmarks! increase my profits. This world is just a one track line for 4. You owe so much to yourself you Moffat these days. It is rumored that he cannot afford to owe somebody else. yearns for the changein weather that will Keep out of debt, or keep out of my allow him to see the other side of the shops. street. 5. Dishonesty is never an accident. Cupid pierced the heart of Maryan Good men,, like good women, never see Dunlap on February 14. The lucky chap temptation when they meet it. is Mr. Shirley Packard, graduate of 6. Mind your own business and in Northeastern University. No date has time you'll have a business of your own been setfor the wedding. to mind. Harry Goodall, who recently under 7. Don't do anything here which went an operation at the Baker Memorial, hurts your self-respect. An employee who is now recuperating at home. is willing to steal for me is willing to We hope to hear of Harold Erb's dis steal from me. charge from the Baker soon. 8. It is noneof my business what you Mr. Locke certainly was "a good judge do at night. But if dissipation affects too"—wethought he stolethe show. what you do the next day, and you do The show was so successful that it will only half as much as I expect, you'll last probably quiet the grumblings of the only half as long here asyou hoped. minority, who are fed up on amateur en 9. Don't tell me what I'd like to hear, tertainment, for quite a while. but what I ought to hear. I don't want The caterer must have had a big job a valet for my vanity, but one for my the week before, in order to have enough dollars. left over to feed our crowd! One of the 10. Don't kick if I kick. If you're boys said the food was all right, while worth while correcting, you're worth another said you could get a better meal while keeping. I don't waste my time in the dogcart for a quarter. Why does cutting specks out of rotten apples. the good icecream always land on one of —Conn. Paper Co. the other tables? There is plenty of soup to our P.A. How is it that traffic cops can slow system—it blasted us right out of the balcony. up traffic so much at a simple intersec tion? Without the cop, traffic flows The two most consistent ice cream eat along smoothly—with the cop, it is tied ers in the Lab. are Cady and Ruplenas. up for blocks. Do they have to flunk We could arrange a contest if we could the mental exam, to get the job? Do they find opponents worthy of their steel. take courses in slowing up traffic? Do theycompete for prizesgiven for the best If you forget to ask your wife about slower upper? Do they dislike motor joining the Blue Cross tell her now how ists so much that delaying them as much it provides a convenient method of bud as possible is the cop's own idea? Do geting for unexpected hospital bills. they have domestic difficulties and take Monday, March 4, is the closing date for every opportunity to be mean to every a new group and the lists may not be re one else or do they just naturally have opened for severalyears. ugly dispositions? GENERAL RADIO NEWS

BUSINESS I know from this fall's home-movie With five business days still to go the session on pictures of the World's Fair total of orders received during February that GR families are no strangers to this has reached $83,291, thus assuring an town, but just visits from Hokanson, other satisfactory month. Shipments have Dawes and Adams are a small showing been at about the same rate as new orders. of interest in the New York Office. We The bad weather which the North At are out of the way for train travellers, lantic states have experienced during Feb but we do store bags, reserve theatre tick ruary appears to have had no adverse ef ets, meet Junior, and do other small items fect on either orders or shipments. A with real pleasure at seeing Cambridge most successful private exhibit, along the faces. lines of the one held in the library the To the New Yorker who is forced to last week in January, was held at the conduct his business in telephone conver Hotel Stevens in Chicago during the sec sations, the visiting foreigners present a ond week of the month. Packard and leisurely contrast. Their business habits, Dawes, who ran the Chicago exhibit, re of course, reflect the customs of their own port that there was much real interest on countries. When the door opens to ad thepartof thevisitors, and they are hope mit a group of four or five gentlemen ful that some good business will result. who seem slightly uncertain of what they are to find on my side, it is usually one NEW YORK NOTES of our export customers come to spend (Continued from last month) the morning, escorted byoneof the junior I am always impressed with the will men from his closest New York associate ingness of customers to talk to General to act as interpreter. The power supply Radio men. In all this region of high voltage and frequency for the correct re industrial concentration there are few placement setscrew areusually determined outfits, outside of the Government con before lunch-time. If not, beware their tract laboratories, where the doors are not appetites and flair for the special dishes! opened on the presentation of a card to Once I was met by the valet of a visiting the engineer in charge. After being English nobleman and smuggled up a called in over the heads of carbon-paper back elevator of the Waldorf-Astoria into salesmen, I am often thankful for the the dressing room of his suite. While my workmanship that goes into our instru host settled the angle of his dress tie he ments and for their design reputation. asked questions on extending the fre I am impressed, too, with the uni quency range of an amplifier he was versal habit of conducting business by using in private biological research. He telephone. I believe that because of the apologized for not receiving me in the time taken by subways, and by letter- drawing room which, unfortunately, was writing, the engineers arewilling to think filled with callers being held at bay by on the telephone and to reach a decision his secretary. without a personal interview. Many of Speaking of hotels, one day I was the letters are, therefore, confirmation of asked to call at the Shelton, where in one technical data and prices for file record of the tower rooms I found a working about matters on which the decision has model of a complete railway block sig already been reached. nalling system. The tenant needed a Thiessen commented last trip that in 650-A in a hurry to measure the induc spite of the reputation for haste he did tance and resistance of relay coils. I sus not seem to notice the hurry and rush in pect that the management didn't quite the streets. I find that that is true out know everything that was going on in side of the business and entertainment the hotel, for the floor man had been rush hours. Then it's another story,—all tipped not to disturb the layout, and the the city is at the feet of the worm who tenant did his own room work. recently turned and planted his fist in the One interesting morning found me at face ofashoving rush-hour subway guard. Bellevue Hospital (not as a patient) in The magistrate evidently is a commuter, the ward for adolescents with excitable for sentence was suspended with an ad dispositions. The doctor wished to use monition to rise earlier in themorning. the Strobotac to measure the persistence GENERAL RADIO NEWS of visionin the eyes of the patients to get Variac winding was left with the operat a true measure of their state of elation or ing engineer. of depression. He believed that the re Smiling Jack's recent adventure in the sponse of the optic nerve should be close wind tunnel with Dixie and Mary recalls ly related to the brain activity of the pa a demonstration of the 631-A on a wind tient. He also found that the instrument tunnel fan for which, fortunately, the would be quite useful in such work, but direction of the air stream was reversed. that the color and the shortness of the I havea distinct impression that my num flash would make the results misleading bered hairs were combed closely to my when compared with data taken with head while we hunted for the particular other equipment. blade of the fan that was fluttering. Once, when things were not so busy and when we thought we saw a way of Once, returning late from a demon disposing of the remaining stock of 548-B stration of a 631-A to an oil-burner Stroboscopes after the Strobolux was an manufacturer in the Bronx, I ran along nounced, we spent an afternoon at one the subway platform for the end of the of the WPA Federal Theatres. The di train and inadvertently banged the 631 rector had seen several of Edgerton's pic carrying case against one of the columns. tures and wished to use the Stroboscope The cover flew open and as the bottom of to give a stage ballet scene showing a the case sagged away from the lid, the many-handed Oriental priestess. The power cord stored on top of the 631 fell dancer immediately recognized the possi out onto the track with the plug resting bilities that the Stroboscope offered and nicely across the rail. No one else on improvised a realistic goddess with many the platform, I asked the change agent to arms, the more startling for the perfec give me a hand up after I retrieved the tion of the illusion and for the super cord. He said I'd be arrested if I got imposed slow motions of the hands. down on the track, and he'd be glad to There have been a few moments that telephone for a track-walker who could I have not forgotten, such as those on a get there in about a half hour. I had service visit to a chemical plant. When just about decided to go down after the I looked at the Variac panel I noticed cord, anyway, and escape at the otherend that it was just set in place in the wall, of the platform when I heard the next and then noticed that the glass brick down train approaching. An awful mo window had no mortar, that the building- ment of helpless indecision, the first of tile wall had but a thin bond of cement, the lights in sight up the track! The turnstile clunked at my back. The elder and that the roof was of light construc ly gentleman was dazed as I practically tion. I was told that the Variacs were used to heat a mixture of hydrogen and grabbed his cane and managed to hook gasoline by-products that would explode the cord up to the platform. He was a if the temperature passed a narrow-toler good sport, accepted my thanks, and al ance safety limit, and that the leakage lowed me to escort him through the train vapors were extremely explosive. The door that opened directly in front of us. light construction was used so that when Whenever bored by waiting in the sub a spark did set things off the shed would way, did you ever try counting the num tend to collapse rather than explode forc ber of gentlemen with canes that enter? ibly. The Variacs, Type 100, were Try it sometime. mounted with windings in a cabinet back (Watch for more New York notes of the panel and with their brushes ac next month.) cessible when a sheet-metal door was opened from outside the building. To A concert wasbeing held at the village prevent ignition of stray vapors they had schoolroom and it came to Sandy's turn found it advisable to plug the hollow to give his bagpipe solo. When the ap shaft of these Variacs with corks stuck in plause had died down a voice from the the center of the handwheels. Needless back shouted: "Give us 'Annie Laurie,' to say, the building was on a moreor less Sandy!" isolated piece of property. 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Vol.2 APRIL, 1940 No. 6

BLUE CROSS receive a lump sum payment immediately A recent statement of the Blue Cross and a monthly income when she becomes indicates its increasing financial sound 65. ness. In 1939 an epidemic of respira The amount of the paymentsreferred to tory infection caused rather heavy pay above vary in accordance with the average ments but as the year ended there was a monthly wageof the workerandthe length surplus of $152,359.73. General oper of time he has made contributions to the ating costs were 8.7 per cent and the cost fund. For example, if an insured worker of acquiring new members, servicing ac retired at age 65, having earned an aver counts and educational program was 2.5 age of $150 per month for three years per cent making a total of 11.2 per cent under the Social Security Act, his monthly of earned income used for Administra old age benefit would be $30.90. If he tion. "This is one of the lowest oper had a wife over 65, together they would ating costs among the

1939 SAFETY CONTEST PERSONALS The Massachusetts Industrial Safety A recent bulletin announces the dis Contest ended with the General Radio banding of an organization whose roots Company winner in their group of nine were planted by prehistoric man. The contestants. During 1939 our company right of man to be skeptical is as funda worked 389,275 hours with no lost time mental as the Magna Charta. Does this injury and, as a result, were awarded a stream-lined Zola think that with a dash trophy on March 12th at the Massachu of printers ink he can stop the function of setts Safety Conference. so valuable a privilege? There may be a The Grand Trophy was awarded to the few valiant survivors of a lost generation Boston Gear Works Inc. of North Quincy who do not want to relinquish their mem in recognition of their outstanding re bership. Are we mice or men? (Don't cord, when an average of 479 employees answer!) There are some organizations worked over one million man hours with now left, universal in appeal, who, with out a lost time injury. Of the 310 com advancing years, may delve into the arts panies enrolled, only 39 operated the of philosophy and furnish a haven for entire year without a lost time injury. the few who carry around their salt. We, It is interesting to note that the per who are about t©die, salute them. centagedistribution of the analyzed causes Time flounders on!! of injuries reported in this contest was as McElroy and Bing Crosbyhave a lot in follows: common, even if P. K. doesn't sing. Fallsof Persons 20.0% It has really happened—the floor was Handling of Material 18.9% cleared of trucks and boxes in front of the Strains or Sprains 18.3% lockers on the 2nd floor of building No. 1 Machinery 11.9% about the first week in March. Nice go Electricity: Poisonous or Corrosive ing. Let's keep it up. Substances 7.2% The G. R. faculty was very much amaz Stepping on or Striking against ed some time ago to discover that they Objects 6.5% harbored a peanut filcher (one who puts Falling Objects 5.9% 139-518 washers in the vending Vehicles and Hand Trucks 2.8% machine). On advice of the F. B. I., the Miscellaneous 2.1% stockroom awaited the request for these nearly obsolete washers, figuring that a We employees of General Radio Com criminal always returns to the scene of pany are proud of our record and aim to his crime. After months of watchful continue ourhighstanding. waiting, a foreman named Bill made the Dudley H. Chute has been appointed first request. The culprit hasn't been chairman of the Safety Drive for 1940. prosecuted as yet. You have our support,Dud. The Johnson and Martin expedition is Sidney H. Beck is the retiring chair again preparing for its annual battle with man, under whose guidance we won the those ferocious black Qies of the Maine trophy. Nice work, Sid! It (thetrophy, woods. Any suggestions for successfully not Sid), is displayed in the library. combatingthese jungle beasts will be ap preciated. It is rumored that Chesley BUSINESS Newell is planning to go along. Nice to New orders received for the first two- have known you, diet. thirds of March are $65,100. If this same Since the notice was postedwarningthe rate continues for the remainder of the boys not to divulge any information re month, the total would be 8% under the garding their work, we find the stock average rate for January and February. room boys giving incorrect part numbers. While there has been some noticeable de Who said, "as usual"? cline in orders received, there is nothing If the European warlords would really as yet to indicate that it is anymore than like to get the low down on the proper one of the normal swings which occur strategy to employ, we suggest that they from time to time. There is however, no tune in on Department A some time. sign of any improvement in our foreign If you haven't heard Paul Penny imi markets. tate a barnyard scene: Bill Fish recite, GENERAL RADIO NEWS

"The Daffodil"; Bill Marvin sing"Walk THE PRIZE LETTER OF THE ing along the Railroad"; about Dave Mar MONTH tin's six kids having the measles; or George Peterson's farm days, you ain't CALEDONIAN INSURANCE heard nothin' yet. COMPANY Howard Stockbridge answered the tele Robert McLean phone one day when Bill wasn't around Agent and, after listening for a moment, he Bagotville, P. Q. shouted to the Department, "Who made 1st March. 1940 the No. 632?" A moment's silence. General Radio Laboratory, Then a voice cried "you did." Howard's Cambridge, Mass. face was red to the back of his neck. Sir: Have you noticed how well our old I am a piano tuner and some time my friend Tom Palmer looks these days? ears are sore and I am for a little time Nice going, Tom. without be able to worck for I cant ear the A glance at the parking yard makes the beats. one wonder how so many poor drivers Can you to furnish me an instrujent can be concentrated in one plant. Some beats amplifier wictn will permit me to one should start a car parking school. worck the samewhen my ears are in those We understand that Ben Bertini in states. hales ice cream by the gallon, and makes Your truly the best efforts of his competitors seem Robert McLean but feeble nibbling. Bagotville Ralph Tedesco and George Musgrave Co. Chicoutimi left the employ of General Radio recent P. Que, ly and are working for United Aircraft in South Hartford, Conn. PAPER We understand Austin I. Corkum has In ancient Egypt, books were in the made up his mind where he wants to live form of rolls of Papyrus. These were and again Westwood has been selected. packed in jars neatly labeled and ranged March 29th was the red letter day. in rows on noblemen's library shelves. Harold Erb returned home March 17th The Chinese made paper from bamboo from the Baker Memorial and is able to as early as 150 A. D. They are consid walk around with the aid of crutches. ered the first pulp and paper makers. As we go to press Emil Mohler is ill Prior to 1799, all paper was made by at his home. hand, each sheet separately. The United States manufactures and In the United States last year, it is esti uses more than half of the world's paper mated that: production. $40,000,000 is spent to maintain Modern paper machines can produce 5,000 public and private golf from 15 to 30 tons of paper in 24 hours. courses which cover 150,000 square miles and are worked STRAY THOUGHTS on by A company is known by the men it 75,000 persons in order that keeps. 2,162,000 men, women and children, may walk Some of the folks who went to Florida 238,000,000 miles while playing golf. for the winter sure found it there.

Boy: "And now, Doctor, that I've told A good way to improve the monotony you I am going to marry Anne, there's of any job is to think up ways to improve one thing I want to get off mychest." it. Doctor: "You just tell me about it, by boy." If all themenwhosleep in church were Boy: "A tattooed heart with the name laid end to end, they would be more Mabel on it." comfortable. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

NEW YORK NOTES a tapping as he slowly turned in a com (Continued from last month) plete circle. A Type 760-A Sound Ana I confess to bad judgment the morn lyzer was obtained for this work, only ing the engineer from the interphone to be returned with the comment that the company called to borrow a 759-A for a analyzer did not show changes in sound short set of measurements. He wanted quality that could be distinguished clear nothing more than to impress the cus ly by his ear, whereas cathode-ray oscillo tomer to whom he had just sold a com graph photographs clearly showed the municating system that was slightly in difference. adequate for the job. I reported that we Different, however, is the story of the did not rent, but after his explanation surgeon who with the smell of carbolic and since he promised that we would be soap fresh on his hands unrolled on my through by lunch time, I picked up the desk from a gauze-dressing what ap 759-A and followed him out the door. peared to be a moderate sized, dirt- We took a taxi to the battery, stopped at encrusted sweet potato. Just removed the Municipal pier, were soon aboard the from the kidney of its late owner, the City's newest fireboat and were steaming surgeon turned it slowly in his fingers, out into the west river. The 6000-horse- broke away a.section to show me its layer power Diesel engines made so much noise like construction,' and in a voice shaded inside the steel engine room when deliv with his long experience and long study ering their full power to the duplex tan of his job asked me to provide him with dem centrifugal pumps, that the chief a sympathetic vibration to break up such engineer could hardly hear the commands stones in place and so spare his patients over the loud speaking telephone from the operation just performed. the bridge. We measured the level to be over 115 decibels, and then I stole up on Even more desirable should it work, deck to be allowed to point thegreat high but somewhat distasteful, is the sale of a pressure stream from the forward turret second Variac to a gentleman who in through a small arc over the bow of the strictest confidence shows me the photo boat. I dedicated the stolen moments to graph of the first Variac installed in a Joe Hollis, and returned to the office to Cancer-cure machine, "And this one eat a hastened sandwich for lunch. works, too!" I hope that the truth will These brief paragraphs do not include catch up before he goes into mass pro the tale of the Russian inventor who ap duction of slot machines for false hope. peared with two agents from the Depart We have long since been reconciled to ment of Agriculture in tow, demanding the use of a dozen or so 200-B's in a information on a precision wavemeter chain of beauty parlors using directly ap that would measure down to less than a plied electrodes for the re-toning of the hundredth of a millimeter in wavelength. skin and the cure of constipation. After He had impressed Washington authori stopping only to inquire as to whether ties with his demonstrations of remark said chain, managed by the purchaser, able plant growth to the extent that they carried liability insurance I specifically had commissioned the agents to attend warned the gentleman not to connect his to his wants. The inventor believed that clients directly to the house lines. After by thinking he could project ultra short all, he was using a 10-volt step-down waves on to the seeds to stimulate their transformer between the Variac and the growth, and now wished to measure the patrons. There might be something in wavelength. that sixty-cycle zip. Perhaps some of the Or the visit of the harassed Pole, vic boys in the lab can tell. tim of a persecution complex, who de Other items we are asked for and are sired a radio control device to stifle the unable to provide are an "rf power meter foreign radio transmitters that were used good to 300 megacycles," and a "stan by his enemies to implant false stories in dard signal generator with accurate out the minds of his friends over here. Or put good to 1200* megacycles." Sugges the gentleman who demonstrated to me tions will be appreciated. an absolute sense of direction obtained Best regards, by the change in the quality of sound of Fred Ireland. 1 1 n

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Vol 2 MAY, 1940 No. 7

SALES LEADERS there would be the very height of pros The following instruments in the order perity even in England." listed were the sales leaders for the month The Englishman is right. We have a of March: very queer sense of humor in this country. 200 Variac It is almost droll. For instance, we have 631 Strobotac a few automobiles. Last year there were 650 ImpedanceBridge approximately 30,000,000 automobiles 100 Variac registered in the United States—which 605 Standard Signal Generator was three times as many asall the rest of 736 Wave Analyzer the world put together. In this country 726 Vacuum Tube Voltmeter there is an automobile for every 4.5 per 759 Noise Meter sons. In England and France there is one 621 Power Stroboscope for every 20 persons; in Germany onefor 732 Distortion and Noise Meter every 49"; in'Italy one for every 104; in Japan one for every472; Russia, of course, The above ten instruments accounted doesn't even do that well. for 44.5 percent of the total sales for the When it comes to radio sets; over half month. of the world total are in thehomes of the G. R. OUTING American people. We haveone for every The outing this year will be at Canobie 4.2 persons—the other nations aren't even Lake, Saturday, June 22. The committee close, except England which has a set for is planning events of interest to everyone every 4.9 persons. so keep the date open and we'll see you Motion-picture theaters? We have there. 15,378 theaters in the United States wired A SAD STORY for sound pictures—which is one-third A famous Englishman made a tour of all such theaters in the world. When of America last November. When he it comes to attendance, our record is still returned home he was asked the usual better—for half of the world attendance question—"What do you think of the at motion-picture theaters is in America. United States?" Moreover, we have better pictures by far "Well," he answered, "they really than any other nation on earth. do have a great sense of humor over As for telephones, we have HALF of there. During the few weeks I was in the world total of 35,000,000 and our the United States mostof the people were telephone service is in a class of its own. talking about a business recession and Of such luxuries as cosmetics, America telling me how bad times were. Yet in consumes over HALF of the world sup all mylifeI have never seen money spent ply—and the same thing applies to wear so freely. The stores were not only ing apparel of the higher grades. crowded, but the goods the people were When it comes to wages, there is just buying would have been tooexpensive for no comparison between the American all but royalty over here. They took me wage and those paid in foreign nations. to the theaters and motion-picture houses, Allowing for relative buying power, the and they were all filled to the last seat. average monthly wage of the Russian They took me to football games where worker is about $10 to $12 in American sixty, seventy and even eighty thousand money—the MONTHLY wage, bear in people were assembled and these people mind. In Germany and Italy it isn't had paid, I learned, an average of $2.60 much better, and even in England the per ticket. As for automobiles, I saw average monthly wage—with allowances more in an hour in New York than I for the difference in buying power— would see in all England in a year. wouldbe only 60 per cent of the average Really, these Americans are very funny monthly wage paid in the United States. folks. What they call a recession over Taking the average monthly wage of ALL GENERAL RADIO NEWS

of the industrial nations, we find that it is PERSONALS about the same as that of workers in this Who was seen with whom at Symphony country who are in the lowest brackets of Hall recently? federal relief. Again May rolls around and the girls It is foolish to even compare American are planning their yearly Birthday Ban educational facilities with those of other quet which at the last report will be held nations. Exceptfor the colleges and post at the 1775 House in Concord. graduate schools there IS no comparison. One of our friends suggests that we When it comes to public schooleducation, might get more contributions to the News the United States with its 27,000,000 if we had a news box on each floor. It school attendance, is so far in advance of would make it still easier if we mounted all other countries—both in the standard a box on each bench but until we do of work done, and total enrollment—that couldn't our contributors give their news no comparison is possible. items to Pete, Everett, Bob, Dud or Fran Of course most of us know all of these ces? If your news is too big, call us up things. That's why we're here. Yet— and we will comeand get it! with all the talk youhear aboutthe plight We've been hearing vague rumors of of poor old America—it is sometimes an amateur phptography contest. Won worth while to checkup and see just how der why the G.' R. A. C A. T» Club badly off we are. doesn't revive itself and sponsor a con test? When it comes to going around, the Ruth Crowe had an interestingtrip over winding department makes a turn or the weekend of the 19th. She and a two. 20,000 lbs. copper wire were pur group of friends drove to Syracuse in chased in 1939, or about 12,500 miles. Ruth's new car. Based on an average of 6 inches per On the way back, after being delayed turn this would mean about 132,000,000 for a considerable time by the recent train turns per year. Variacs used about 300 wreck in Little Falls, the car skidded and milesof wire last year or about 2,500,000 came to rest in the ditch against a tree. turns. Resistance units used 1000 miles Other than broken windows and a badly or 2,000,000 turns. dented top, no other damage was done. Transformers and Variacs used 125,000 Luckily no one was hurt. lbs. or 62y2 tons of laminations last year. Everyone reported a good time at the Bowling Banquet and is looking forward Throughout 1939 General Radio to next fall for more bowling. bought a total of 90,850 knobsconsisting Miss Maryan Dunlap recently under of 14 different types at a total cost of went a T&A operation at The Baker $6,570. Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenkrantz an IN THE UNITED STATES nounce the birth of a daughter, Charlotte, EVERY HOUR March 26th. 15 houses burn down, Mr. and Mrs. John Morey are receiving 150 couples get married, congratulaions on the birth of a son, 158 people die, Jackie, March 30th. 165 are injured in automobiles, We often read about it in papers! Har 180 major crimes are committed, vard boys have found it profitable! But 264 babies are born, never before that we know of has a Gen 600 are injured in home accidents. As eral Radio Lad done it! Earning money Bill Fish would say: "TIME MARCHES caring for children at night while Mom , ON." and Pop take in a movie or a dance. It's not a bad idea at that,so if any of you Professor: "I am about to perform a fun-seeking parents wish a night out, see very interesting chemical experiment. John Wade who will be glad to direct Should I do anything wrong, the whole you to said person. class including myself, might be blown Miss Anne Werner spent the week-end through the roof. Kindly step nearer, so of April 19th visiting in New York and that you can follow me better." Philadelphia and Miss Maryan Dunlap GENERAL RADIO NEWS

spent the same week-end with friends in BUSINESS Maine. What young man from the Laboratory Through April twenty-second new with his new carspentthe longweek-end orders received were $69,4&7* which in New Hampshire with a young lady as again indicates a month thatwill approach a companion? a total of nearly $100,000. This is in Tom Palmer, Joseph Montgomery, spite of the immediate loss of approxi mately $12,000 of orders because of the Mark Aldrich and their wives attended the annual Technical Session and Banquet Scandinavian Invasion. One of these of the American Electroplaters Society at orders, amounting to nearly $6,000, was the Hotel Statler Saturday afternoon and cancelled by cable before the order itself evening, April 13th. had arrived by mail. It was for the Gov ernment of Sweden. We were thrilled to see the name of Russ Hatch in the Marathon list. In an In addition to these orders another exclusively interview with the G. R. News Navy contract in the amount of approxi Reporter, Russ said: "My feet let me mately $40,000 has been awarded. Work, down at Wellesley College and boy am I however, on this contract will take place glad! I stopped there to retie my shoe over nearly a year. laces and never did get going again." The tbtaTof foreign business is off Final Bowling News of the year is as approaching one-half, but it has been follows: made up by increased domestic business Winning Team: and Government contracts, so that for the S. J. Capriulo 99.0 present at least there is no indicated H. J. Comrie 89.2 change in the level of operations. Gov J. E. Lundgren 88.4 ernment contracts on hand and on which H. H. Dawes 80.9 practically no work has been done, total H. P. Hokanson 79.1 approximately $190,000, an all-time high High 3 String: with the exception of the large hydro R. W. Searle ) TIE at 341 phone contracts in 1922 and 1923. Grant S. J. Capriulo ) ing the uncertainties due to the war, the High Single: orders actually in production together Paul Penney 132 with itemswhichnormallywill be ordered by sales during the next four or five We still in the Plant havea Safety Com months, seem to assure full-time produc mittee whose function is to reduce and if tion until the first of the year. possible, stop accidents. One of the other Confirming current rumors, the Com duties is the problem of good housekeep pany plans to purchase the garage across ing. Everyone remarked how fine our State Street on corner of Windsor to in Plant looked when we had open house. crease our parking facilities. If all goes Why not with just a little effort keep it well, the new building will be available that way? Some times we are embar for use about October 1—ending for a rassed at dirty conditions when taking whileanyway the parking argument. visitors through the plant. Many com plaints havecome pertaining to a few but A committee consisting of Paul Han concerning us all. It seems that some re son, C. T. Burke and Carl Batchelder will gard the bubbling fountains, barrels and have the job of carving up the child to whitepainted corners ascuspidors. Please, every one's satisfaction, as well as that of as a health measure for your fellow- administrating our other parking areas. worker, won't you co-operate? Many complaints have also been re "Why did you want me to hire the ceived about round wooden matches on short man? The tall man had such a kind the stairways. Manydangerous falls have face." resulted. If you must leave them where "My dear, when you pick a man to they fall, please use the paper ones. work in your garden, judge him by his overalls. If they're patched on his knees, CONFUCIUS' MOTHER - IN - LAW you want him; if they're patched on the say: "Confucius talk too much." seat, you don't." GENERAL RADIO NEWS SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT Boulevard, and is owned by theLangevin NUMBERS Company. It is a one-story affair of mod The amount of the retirement and death ernistic architecture, constructed of brick benefits tobe paid by theFederal Old-Age painted white, and has a red glass front. and Survivor's Insurance system will be The grass around it is green throughout based ontheaccount kept foreach worker. the year, and flower beds and flowering A mistake might be extremely costly. shrubs from time to time make a colorful Since there^are millions of these accounts picture against the white of the building. at the central accounting office in Balti Hollywood is part of the city of Los more it is impossible to keep the records Angeles, and is not a separate corporate straight unless employees' names, Social town. Consequently, ourmailing address Security numbers, and earnings are cor is Los Angeles, although, if Hollywood rectly reported each quarter by the em is made a part of the address, letters are ployer. routed immediately to the Hollywood Our employment records and Social Post Office rather than clearing through Security reports are very carefully com the down town Post Office. The center piled, and we arereasonably sure that each ofHollywood isapproximately eight miles employee's earnings have been correctly from down towja... There are many wide reported since he has been at General thoroughfares" or boulevards radiating Radio. There are always good chances from Los Angeles, and one hardly ever for error, however, when workers change drives the same route twice in going be jobs, if they have more than one account tween two points. If you do not like number, or if they do not always use ex someone's driving on Sunset Boulevard actly the same name. It is suggested, you simply cut over to Beverly Boulevard therefore, if anybody, particularly among and try it for awhile. those who have worked elsewhere since Mr. C. C. Langevin has represented January 1, 1937, has any reason to believe General Radio on the Pacific Coast for a there might be a mistakein the records at period of approximately fifteen years. Baltimore, that he fill outan inquiry card His original headquarters were in San (available in the accounting office) to Francisco. After the boom of radioparts have his account checked and reported to had subsided, Mr. Langevin began to get him. into the public address business, which is If anybody has more than one account different out here from anythingwe know number, he should have his various ac in the East. His business has expanded counts combined and have all numbers and prospered, and now requires the full except one cancelled immediately. time of the Langevin Company. Mean LOS ANGELES NOTES while General Radio equipment became A number of weeks ago Pete wrote to much more technical, and it seemed desir our Los Angeles Office and requested able to have our own Engineering and some nptes on the activities in the Holly Sales Office. In the summer of 1937 Mr. wood area. It has been a mental hazard Langevin decided to build his own build to us for some time that these notes have ing to take care of his needs in the Los not yet been written. I, personally, think Angeles area. Plans were made to house I have a valid excuse—my marriage last our business in the newbuilding, and also November to a Connecticut girl. What to separate the activities of the twoorgani really prompted these notes was the ap zations. pearance of Fred Ireland's about the New STRAY THOUGHTS York Office in the February issue of the Successful men profit by the errors of GR NEWS. others as well as their own. 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Vol.2 June, 1940 No. 8

G. R. OUTING CO-OPERATIVE ENGINEER When June 22nd. Where Canobie Lake Park ING COURSE Dinner 12:30 noon (Page catering) General Radio Company has arranged Sports Watch Bulletin Boardsfor de to co-operate with Massachusetts Institute tails. of Technology on an engineering course Come one! Come all! Join the fun for similar to those now operated between the day! M.I.T. and General Electric, Bell Labora Because of the acceleration of the Euro tories and Boston Edison Company, from pean War which has already produced a which several of the engineering staff have marked decrease in foreign orders, a brief graduated. outline of the manner in which the Com The purposeof this course is to combine pany is preparing to adapt itself to this practical shop jand laboratory experience changed state of business may be of in with school work. Students have a full terest to the readers of the G. R. News. academic program as well as the works Although the volume of Government experience, completing the course in five work now booked in addition to the in years instead of the usual four. creased domestic business would seem to Two students are selected each year, require our full productive capacity and they continue on the co-operative through 1940, some new stimulus to busi course for three years, spending alternate ness will be needed to keep operating at fifteen-week periods at General Radio and capacity after the first of the year. It is M.I.T. proposed to bring out for sale early next The first student under the plan, Sand- year as many new instruments as possible, ford Peek, will start work at the plant and to this end we have in various stages this summer. of development nearly thirty new in Upon his return to school next October, struments some of which will be put in Herbert Harvey will come to General Ra production before the end of this year. dio. Part of the foregoing plan is to complete The first period at General Radio will the engineering, drafting and test runs of be spent indifferent manufacturing depart new instruments in order to have them ments including painting, parts assembly, ready for production if and when our do winding, instrument assembly, and inspec mestic sales decrease. The publication tion. The second period will be in the data on the new cataloghas beententative calibration laboratory, and later assign ly set. If sales decrease the catalog will ments will be made to various activities, come out early in the spring; if sales con including engineering, as seem to be in tinue in good volume the publication date dicated by the man's aptitudes. may be deferred until early summer, and we will include all new instruments on Many of us attach so much importance which theengineering hasbeen completed. tq the number of persons killed by wars, In order to prepare so many units for we thought it would be enlightening to production and eliminate all the difficulties point outwhat our real anxiety should be. possible, set up methods of manufacture, Statistics show that244,357 people have make tools, obtain suitable sources of sup been killed in this country by wars from plies etc., more hours of test run super 1776 to 1938, whereas automobiles, our vision will be necessary than now are real problem, exacted a toll of 461,912 available and H. T. Anderson has been lives from 1933 to 1938. If every auto transferred to the office to work with G E. driver would realize that he is at the con Rice on this phase of production. trols of a death dealing machine, and con The co-operation of everyone is re trol it sanely, automobiles wouldn't be quired that this development program even greater killers than war lords. result in maximum benefit to all. Think it over. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

PERSONALS Mr. A. P. G. Peterson, who has been at the General Radio Company for over Misses BettyDolliver and Mildred Cox two years working on a research project are among those having part of their va in connection with the Massachusetts In cation this month. stitute of Technology, is going to join our The engagement of Miss Catheryn E. staff of engineers on July first. Grant to Randall G. Alexander was an Bob Cameron is having a three weeks' nounced on May 7th. The wedding will sick leave but hopes to return to work in take place early in October. much better spirits. A surprise shower wastendered Maryan Dunlap, May 7th, when the young ladies of General Radio met at the Fox and CARD OF THANKS Hounds Club for dinner. Many lovely Through the General Radio News, may and useful gifts were received as was also I express my sincere thanks to all my a corsage of gardenias. friends and to the Mutual Benefit Associ Among those painting their homes this ation who so thoughtfully remembered season are Cliff Gove, Bid Allen, Herman me during my convalescence. Their many Ausin, Chet Starkey, Bill Hart, Dud Chute gifts and cards will long be remembered. and John Holm. H. O. Erb Believe it or not for the month: Two of the neighbors who offered to help Dud paint his house really did some painting. How keen are you for hearing new ra Harold Erb returned to work Monday dio stars on the air? Leon Scott and AI Parlee are among those who are now be after several months sick leave. As we go to press Fred Williams is at ing heard. Possibly we may influence the Baker Memorial Hospital recuperating these boys to post notices on the bulletin from a recent operation. boards so that we may have a chance to Henry Stirling and Herwie Dowden are hear them. among those who havehad operations this past month and are now back at their BUSINESS work. Larry Graham, one of our baseball stars, Through Maytwenty-second new orders has been unable to work for a few days, were $78,773, which is a little better than following a slight injury received at a for the same period of April. The total recent game. for April reached only $88,550 instead Anyonetroubled with sticking windows of the expected figure of $100,000. For see Herman Ausin. His method gives eign cancellations were largely responsible immediate results. for the dropping off at the end of the An issue of the Bridge, a magazine month. printed by the Credit Union National As The further successes of the Germanic sociation, will be found in the library for Armies has taken more territory from our the convenience of our members. sales area. The following list gives the Lu Packard recently purchased a 10 sales made in the occupied territories for H.P. Evinrude Motor and boat which he the twelve months just prior to their in plans on using on his vacation down the vasion: Cape this summer. Czechoslovakia $12,000 Charlie Keirstead and Roger Schaller Poland 40,000 are busy gettingtheir boatready at Marble- Holland and Belgium 55,000 head for the summer. Austria 2,000 Stan Larson wanted to talk to Comrie Scandinavian and Baltic the other day so he picked up a phone, Countries 25,000 dialed 66 and got a busy signal. Turning away from the phone he discovered Com $134,000 rie standing at his elbow and much to his At the present moment shipments to surprise, found that he had been using France have also been suspended byRadio- Hi's own phone. "What's her name phon, and English shipments are at a Stan?" standstill. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

INSPECTION TRIPS Consider the Credit Union and the GRMBA. These are two organizations On Wednesday June 27 from 2.30 to which should be of vital interest to every 4:30 there will be a conducted tour through the plant for the delegates and one here. One safeguards over $41,000 saved by us. The other benefits us when their friends from the national convention we are sick. Surely our savings and sick of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers being held in Bostonthat week. benefits are worth a few minutes of our There will also be a visit by a delega time. Meetings are called and we say "What the heck. I've got to tear home tion from the annual convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers the following to the little woman. Someone else will be there to vote for me." And so it was day from 1:30 to 5:30. at the last Credit Union meeting when less than 15% of the members cared whether we declared a dividend or not. THE GREAT AMERICAN Less than 20 people cared enough about what became of over $41,000 of their own CUSTOM money to attend the meeting. Is it be Now that it's all over it doesn't seem too cause we don't care? The day after a serious. We mean the attendance at the meeting we scurry here and there to find semi-annual meeting of the Credit Union. out what happened AFTER it's all over How often in life things happen like and AFTER someone else has done for that. We see approaching some ripple us what we should have done ourselves. on our usually placid program of life and It seems to be the Great American Custom as it nears us the perspective changes, the but it is a poor one. closer it comes the higher it seems. Some Oh well, it's over now. The ripple times we watch it with dread but always has receded in the past and is diminishing we watch it helplessly. It finally arrives in importance. The thing has been done and we rise with it and then fall back, for us and placidity is again the order of sometimes to the same level, sometimes the day. After the outingwe'll crababout a little above, sometimes a little below but the food, the park, the sports and about always it comes and passes. When it is everything else someone other than our gone and we look back at it our perspec selves has worked for and planned and tive again changes and the farther behind made possible. If you want a swell chance us it passes the smaller and more insignif to criticize the time to do it is at the meet icant it seems. How much of this life is ings and not afterwards. lived in our imaginations. How great a So in the future when meeting time ap part our philosophy of life plays in our proaches why not say "Something may contentment and peace of mind. come of this meeting that will effect me Somepeople's philosophy includes never and if it does I have a right and a duty doing ourselves what we can depend on to take part in it. It will only takea few someone else doing. City, State and Na minutes of my time and if that time will tional elections are a good example. Al only lend confidence to those who are do though we are personally governed by ing tilings for me I owe it to them and to those elected so many of us feel that myself so that they will do a better job." whether or not we vote someone will win Why not? and our vote won't change the picture. That may be true, but after a job is done, any job, isn't there a lot of satisfaction in Since 1936, General Radio has made knowing that we have played a part, how 523,000 Type 274-800B pin plug springs ever small, in its accomplishment. We which were made from 2,000 pounds of see a great symphony orchestra of 100 beryllium copper costing approximately or more pieces and there is no doubt that $2,500. the manwho may onlybeata cymbal once during an entire overture feels that some dayhe'll get a chance to bang away to his Now that the coal bins are empty, paper heart's content and make himself heard cartons that have wood cuttostove lengths above the rest. He doesn't say "What's come in handy to keep the home fires go the use." ing. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

LOS ANGELES NOTES Western Electric public address systems (Continued from last month) operating with about 400 watts of un- The building was completed in No distorted audio output. A crowd of more vember 1937, and "yours truly," under than 100,000 can hear every word per the guidance of Arthur Thiessen, took fectly. We thus have an opportunity over the General Radio business on De through our connections at the Langevin cember 1 of the same year. General Radio Company to see some of the big events in in Los Angelesis taken care of by two in Los Angeles from a favorable vantage dividuals; a man from Cambridge, and a point. secretary. Miss Jane Derne, our present The Langevin Company rents space in efficient secretary, is the third girl we their building to another company known have had in the last two years. The mor as the World Broadcasting System, Inc. tality is high out there. Together we man as well as to the General Radio Company. ageto keep very busy with correspondence The World Broadcasting office is operated —accepting and writing up orders, and byMr. Patrick W. Campbell and his secre with the large amount of detailed work tary, Miss Rose Mary Arrigo. World in connection with running a branchoffice. Broadcasting sells time on the radio by The General Radio Office itself is about means of Western Electric High Fidelity fifteen feet square with light green walls, Vertical-cut transcription records. Thus, white woodwork and wainscoting, and one can see that we have in this building green carpet. The furniture is walnut, three diversified companies, and subse and the whole ensemble is very pleasing. quently, many different personalities all Out here one has to go in for much more operating as one family. So' far the ar show and effect than in the East. rangement has worked out very well, and In addition to our decorative office, we any differences of opinion have been have a small-sized stockroom where we ironed out to the satisfaction of all con store our parts and instruments for ship cerned. We would like very much to ment. Complete shipping facilities are have all of you stop at our Los Angeles supplied by the Langevin Company. We Office and meet the western gang. As have been very fortunate in securing the you enter the common reception room, lo services of a Hollywood High School stu cated in the front corner of the building, dent to come in for an hour each after you will see three pleasant secretaries sym noon to take care of the shipping, receiv bolic of the three separate organizations ing, and mailing problems. Most ship which are sharing the Langevin building. ments are made locally via United Parcel This brief report we hope will give you Delivery Service, although the bigger items a little picture of our office layout on the are sent by Express which is picked up. West Coast. At a later date we hope to Parcel Post shipments as well as the rather give you some interesting side lights on large amount of mail is taken every after our customers in this area with perahps noon just before five o'clock to the local some details about the movie studios. Post Office. Addison Brown is our cur Myron T. Smith. rent stockroom clerk; a very intelligent, well-mannered young man of seventeen "What's the idea of the Greens having years. French lessons?" Now a word about the Langevin Com "They've adopted a French baby and pany. Mr. Carl Langevin has been in want to understand what it says when it New York almost constantly for the last begins to talk." two years. The Los Angeles Office of the Langevin Company is managed by Mr. Frank Pease. The Langevin secretary is "The time will come," shouted the Miss Muriel Rominger. Mr. Pease has an speaker, "when women will get men's organization of seven men to carry on the wages." work of the company, installing and oper "Yes," said the little man in the corner, ating large public address systems- such "next Friday night." as are used at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Santa Anita Race Track, and the We fired the maid at our house, She Hollywood Park Race Track. These are handled China like Japan. ~^s X How nw \Ui*tH—WW / JUiT JLSAWA WIN WK'

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Vol.2 JULY, 1940 No. 9

OUTING NOTES NEW MEMBERS OF THE In trying to create something new to GENERAL RADIO FAMILY help the group enjoy themselves, the Charles Ganss assigned to Department dance hall was hired for one hour in the A, under Bill Fish. Ganss in addition to afternoon and seemed to be quite promis being a swell fellow, can tell a story or ing as far as attendance was concerned. two about the dayswhen he held a trans At one time, twenty couples were on the port pilot license, and flew between Chi floor, and approximately 100 people were cago and Detroit. Anyone interested in in the hall. aeronautics will find Charlie helpful and Although the day was cool, 262 adults willing. ..^ _ and 97 children sat down to dinner at Walter Young's familiar face is here 12:30. again, this time working for Hi Comrie What was wrong with first base at the learningthe art of makingchokes. Walter ball park? Warren Webster and Miss has one more year to complete his course Dolliver took a spill. for B.S. degree at Bowdoin, at the end Bill Lewis and his wife seemed to be of which he hopes to become a teacherof enjoying themselves. They were seen mathematics in some secondary school. going hand in hand through the park. Alan Harwood, assigned to drafting Seems as if Warren Webster arrived under A. Rohmann, is a Northeastern stu at the dance hall a little late. dent of engineering. He likes General We understand that Stan Larsen's fair guest at the Outing is quite proficient at Radio very much and hopes some day to heaving missies at a dummy. Tread specialize in the high frequency field. gently, Stan! Marshall Bibber, who recently joined Game Winners: the production office group, is a graduate Shirley Scott wonhooprollingcontest. of Mass. Television Inst, and is also an Alvin Scott won 50-yard dash for boys. instructor there. David Martin's twins won the battle Edmund Ogden, who is working in the royal. finished stockroom for the remainder of Fred Beck's Hoosier Hot Shots won soft the summer, enters his senior year at ball game—12 to 9. Harvard studying electrical engineering. In the horseshoe contestWalter Bishop Miss Betty Richmond who has recently won first prize and Roscoe Frost second joined our stenographic force, graduated prize. from Simmon's in June. Her home is in ,We understand someone at the Outing Squanrum. purchased a Chris-Craft but couldn't take Edwin Houston, working for the sum it home. mer in John Wade's department, is study Ruth Crowe bowled high in the two- ing electricalengineering at Northeastern. string bowling contest. Sanford Peek Jr., has joined our or Bill Marvin was high in the two-string, ganization recently being one of the first and diet Starkey high in the single. under our new MIT cooperative plan. Department C won another leg of the Henry Maling has returned to work in Trophy. The team consisting of Hi the laboratory for the summer after hav Comrie, Fred Berthel, Warren Newell ing completed a year at Harvard obtain and Leon Scott. ing his Master's Degree. Henry has now Marshall Bibber won- the 50-yard dash received a scholarship for this coming for men. yearat the same university. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

BUSINESS THE MAGAZINES ON THESE Thanks to one order of about twenty- SHELVES ARE TO BE BOUND AT THE END OF THE YEAR. four thousand dollars from the State of Pennsylvania, new orders for the first WILLYOU PLEASE SEE THAT twenty-three days of the month total THEY ARE RETURNED TO THEIR $91,411.00, thus assuring us of another PLACE? It is not difficult to sign a card, either satisfactory month. the pocket-kind for the black box in the The continued successes of the Ger case of bound books and magazines, or manic armies have taken a further toll of the old-fashionedplain white card for the our export business. Last month a list open box in the case of unbound maga totaling $134,000 of sales to lost coun zines. We like to knowwhere things are. tries in the twelve months before they were invaded was published in the THINGS I HATE "News". To this we must now add To discover that the 6 winks I took France, whose business has been running after the alarm have become 60. over $40,000 per year. The entry of To come down to breakfast and dis Italy into the war closed the Mediterra-- cover that I fofgot to get that loaf of nean and likewise lost us about $40,000 bread the night before. a year of Italian business. It also put a Hitler. stop to our Swiss and Egyptian business. To have a cop tell me on the way in In addition to the loss of the Italian busi that the red light I have always made a ness, the closing of the Mediterranean right turn on means "stop" and "let's represents about an additional $30,000 see your papers." loss. Thus it will be seen that The Axis To learn that the speed limit for thickly activities have deprived us of business settled districts has not increased 10 miles amounting to about $244,000 a year. It an hour and you're still supposed to slow extends even further than this as all for down at intersections and please "let's see eign trade has been curtailed. Our best your papers." year in the foreign field was 1937, when Hitler and cops. orders totaled $476,421 In spite of the To finally reach the yard after the bell declaration of war on September 3, the and, swallowing a crest-fallen spirit, 1939 foreign business was only 9% breeze into the department with a cheery under 1937. "good morning" and hear a faint "Hi" from a corner. LIBRARY NOTES To get a "touch" the day after pay-day. To pick up the soldering iron to use It has been occurring rather frequently only to discover I forgot to plug it in. that magazines and books disappear from Hitler. the library with no clews to their where To find nothing on the dog-cart menu abouts. We are not worried that theyare that looks good and have to settle for a gone permanently, for usually they turn hamburger. up in time, but for the duration of their To have the wife call up and give me a absence possible users are inconvenienced. list of shopping to do on the way home. This is particularly true of the new mag Hitler and shopping. azines on the rack, which should be used To find that Junior beat up the kid up in the library. Perhaps everyone has got the street after school and his old man is so used to the presence of the sign over coming over to see me after supper. the rack that he forgets it exists. It reads: To try to finish a good book before PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE ANY going to bed only to have the "Little MAGAZINES ON THIS RACK FROM woman" call down so many times that it's THE LIBRARY. awful late that I put the thing away dis And another warning we have posted gusted. that is not always heeded is that on the Hitler and going to bed. flat magazine shelves to the right of the Hitler. desk: Hitler. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. M. E.Eastham are spend Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rice announce ing the summer in Oswego, Oregon and the birth of a son, Edward Charles 2nd., areexpected back in September. at the Richardson House on June 8th. Miss Helen Field, daughter of R. F. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilkins are re Field, graduated recently fromWatertown ceiving congratulations on the birth of a High School with the honor of beingco- daughter, Sally Delancey, born May 29th. valedictorian. During the past month H. T. Anderson Miss Ferretti returned from her vaca and C. Whitehead have been transferred tion, having visited Guatamala, Costa to the office group. Rica, Panama and Havana. Charles Anton has received an appoint Miss Cole justreturned from a delight ment to serve on the faculty at the Wal- fully chillyweekin the wilds of Maine. tham Trade School teaching shop mathe matics, machine drawing and machine Miss Mildred Halfmann was married science. Charlie, well remembered here to Mr. Martin Gilman at 8:00 P.M. on as a former employee of Department W June29. The ceremony tookplace at the and who recently joined the employment Lutheran Church of the Advent, corner of the Polaroid Company, will commence of Broadway and 93rd Street, New York his teaching duties July 1st. Congratula City. A reception was held at the Hotel tions, Charlie! Astor following thewedding. Thecouple plan to leaveon a CaribbeanCruisewithin Joe Martin has been a patient at The Baker Memorial for the past few weeks a few days. Arnold Peterson officiated as following an operation for a carbuncle. an usher. We hope to see him back here soon. Miss Norma Petersen, daughter of It seems that certain residents of Bel Norman Petersen, who graduated from mont are afraid that the next unique idea Stow High, delivered the valedictory will be a channel connecting Clayton's address. yard with Boston Harbor. Carleton Eade of Department P was George and Alice Bickell and Jack and married Sunday, June 23 to Miss Mary B. Ruth Lamson enjoyed a pleasant boat trip Schatz at her home in Lowell, Mass. from Poughkeepsie to N. Y. C. via the While in school she was a member of the beautiful Hudson the weekend of June Girl Officers Alumni of Lowell High 22nd. which also included a visit to the School. Fair, and we conclude from the Monday morning tirade, that Georgemusthaveen countered a Nazi propaganda agent while Maybe another feud is starting in the in New York. Lab. Chet Starkey and Herman Ausin Howie Stockbridge says he'll never al didn't introduce those two Simmons girls low the top of his head to get sunburned to Bob Turner and Al Webb at the Pops again, as he has been unable to smile for concert the other night. Al and Bob a week. don't speak to Chet and Herman now. Has anyone noticed the Westwood Speaking of contests—in each Lex haircut Sidney Beck is wearing? ington Grammar School there are awarded Big Sandy guzzles a quart of milk a day medals to the three members of the grad to help him grow. Moffat drinks tea. uating class having the best scholastic Some of the boys thought that Old standing for six years. These are called Glory should have been flying from our French medals, after their donor. There buildings on FlagDay. were seventy-six in the graduating class It pays at times to know a hot spot or at the Adams School this year, and Bar two. One of our boys was arrested for bara Anne and Jean Polley each received speeding and told his girl friend about a French medal. Barbara Anne and Jean it. She made him drive her to a certain wrote the class song, and also wrote and beer garden and hadthecop paged in the gave theclass prophecy. WasPapaPolley back room, and the ticket was fixed. pleased? GENERAL RADIO NEWS

Dr. Roy E. Mabrey spent several days FACTS CONCERNING this past month in New York Gty at INSTRUMENT RETURNS tending a medicalmeeting. From time to time, we are asked the The office timekeepers are still trying question, "What is theexpected life of a to figure out how Stan Larson continues General Radio instrument?" Another to show 9 hrs. work on an 8 hr. work question that is asked not quite so fre card. quently is, "How often should an instru Cliff Gove has joined the campers this ment be returned for reconditioning and year. He bought a new head room tent recalibration ?" The following comments and will soon sally forth to do battle will, no doubt, be of interest to many in with flies and mosquitoes. Good luck, the organization. Cliff. Many of our instruments are designed Dinty Flint is now in the new glass to give satisfactory servicefor at least five blowing department. If you watch him years and, in some instances, seven years. for a few minutes you will see how the However, during thisperiod, newdesigns pretzel was discovered. may make instruments obsolete, but it is Paul Penney and his father-in-law are the policy of the company to offer mod keeping bachelor quarters while Paul's ernizations toners of the older equip wife enjoys a vacation in Detroit. Paul ments, whenever practicable, at a nom cooked one Sunday dinner and his dis- inal charge. Occasionally, an instrument cription of the roast beefskidding out of is returned for servicing and, uponcheck the pan onto the floor is worth listening ing our records, it is found that it was to. sold as long as twenty years ago. Fortu nately, most of such instruments can be Some of the boys think it would be nice completely reconditioned and restored to if we could buy "ice cold tonic" in the the original electrical and operating con ice cream salon. dition, butthe cost is rather high. Our contribution to the War Relief Fund of the Cambridge Red Cross was LIFE LINE $262.07. Thiswas composed of $210.00 If you had been born in Rome during in four checks, 2 Five Dollar Bills, 16 the time of the Caesars, the chances are Dollars in ones and twos, 16 fifty-cent that you would have been dead shortly pieces, 48 quarters, 36 dimes, 36 nickels after yourtwenty-fifth birthday. and 67 cents. Bythe 17th century, life expectancy had increased to 33V2 vears- Two centuries later, in America, the average span of our It is interestingto note that the Federal whitepopulation was 49 years. Wages and Hours Law will reduce the work week to 40 hours on October 24, It is now 62 years. 1940. General Radio is about six years If this rate of improvement continues, ahead of that schedule, having gone on in another four decades we will have 22 40 hours December 12, 1933. million people over age 62, with one out of six people retired instead of one out of 16 as now. The picture will be: two Old Uncle Ezry had been very much children, one retired person, three per occupied all by himself over in a corner sonsof bread-winning age. near the fireplace. He was working in We will have the largest population of dustriously with a stub of pencil and a elderly people that any nation has had piece of paper. Suddenly he looked up sincethe dawn of time. Nearly one-half happily. the voters will be over 50 and less than a "Doggone," he exclaimed, "if I ain't quarter of the population will be under learned to write!" Maw got up and age 18. looked over the scrawled lines across the The sociological changes, political paper. changes and economic changes this trend "What do it say?" she asked. will bring are so vast as to be all but in "I don't know," replied Uncle Ezry, comprehensible now. — The Postage puzzled. "I ain'tlearned to read yit." Stamp. o.o / •> •^1 *W.f^ tfey TH£5£ eAMljS TH^TA^ IN T& VAJL C#fcS MM GET Htiitr 6y iw MOultft!

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VoL2 AUGUST, 1940 No. 10

PERSONALS Add Bob Ruplenas to our list of co Pappy Lewis receives much sage advice workers about to embark on the sea of on the care and feeding of children from matrimony. He plansto take MissBertha Poppa Rice. Pluta ashis bride about Labor Day.

Brother Wade reports that he has fi Herman Ausin is taking a course in nally recovered fromhis ivypoisoning. photography. We wonder if its the cam era or the fair co-eds that interest him. We suggest that Blake wear a fencing mask while he pursues his wood chopping Miss Catheryn E. Grant and Randall hobby. Maybe he likes to split open his Alexander plan to have the nuptial knot left eyebrow oncea year. tied on October 5th. They will make their home at 105 Langdon Ave., Water- The Engineering Department presented town. Mr. Martin (back from his honeymoon) Gilman with a Mixmaster. Hope he We are luckyto have Rudy Recke still brings in samples of Mrs. Gilman's with us. The car in which he was an inno cakes! cent passenger went off the road on West St. hill in Needham Heights. The car Miss Carolyn Joy Lewis was born on went down an embankment, zig-zagged July 4th. Her proud pappy is our old through some trees, with Rudy bouncing pal Everett. around on the rear seat and the floor and ended up about sixty feet from the road. Ivan Easton returns after collecting his Rudy ended up with some mighty sore M.S. from Harvard. He is assigned to ribs and a damagedcamera. the sales engineering gang, just nowhelp ing Charlie Wirthen with the new cata The old salt Charlie Burke is hard at log. work again after two weeks of perfect sailing weather. That tan he is sporting Bill Dennis moved to his new home in is the real deep water variety. He sailed North Reading July 2 which he purchased around PenobscotBay and waystations on recently. an 85 ft. schooner. His only regretis that his movie camera was not at hand when Dan Hunt went to the Cape fishing for the fores'l went by the board during a striped bass around the first of the month. blow. Read all about it in a coming Although he didn't get any, the boys are issue of Life. wondering why because he inquired from a local fish market if they were catching If, during our vacations, any of us have any before he went out. had an unusual experience or have seen something we feel would be of interest Walter Ritcey spent his vacation in his to others, why not let the editors know new trailer touring various places in about it? Maine. Walter Young has joined the Naval Al Chase stillthinks tenting is all right Reserve and sails for a month's cruise but has decided this year to build a camp August 19th and will, after three months on the shores of Newfound Lake, New in Annapolis, be commissioned as an en Hampshire. sign next year. Best of luck, Walter! GENERAL RADIO NEWS A fellow in Department A was asked MartinGilman, of the Engineering De when he was going on his vacation and partment, spent his vacation honeymoon his answer was, "I am having it now, ing in the Caribbean. Martin verifies the 'Crisco' LaPorte is out for two weeks." many stories of other GR cruisers who have told of the very interestingsouthern Bill Fish, in the yard looking for a countries and says that it was a wonderful parking space, says, "I'll get a place to trip (of course he mayhave been biased). park if I have to take courses at North The Gilmans visited Kingston, Jamaica; eastern to do it." Baranquilla and Cartagena, Columbia; and Cristobal, Canal Zone with a side Henry Anderson and MJupe" Pluvius trip to Panama City, Panama. Part of the spent a couple of weeks together on the voyage took in some rough weather but Cape. Andy came back on the short end according to the story, at least, they were much the worse for wear. among the few good sailors who did not miss a meal (Martin said he wanted his Joe Martin has returned home from the money's worth). Baker Memorial Hospital. We hope to have him back with us very soon. " BUSINESS As usual prognostication as to the fu Jimmy Higginbotham has joined a re ture course of business is extremely diffi serve medical corps unit and is a member cult at this time. So far this month, how of a radio reserve corps unit also. Jimmy ever, with twenty-three days gone we have goes to drill once a week and says that's alreadywritten up $93,000 of new orders, one way of getting out nights. in spite of the fact that business entered on the books the last few days has aver Chet Newell spent three days at the aged lessthan $2,000 per business day. It American Management Association Con appears, therefore, that July will be a bet ference on Cost Reduction held in New ter than average month, and considerably York this month. Did you get over to the better than last July. Fair at all, Chet? As an indication of the important changesthat have taken place in our busi Bill Marvin's eyes are bothering him ness since the war started, last year our again. He claimshe is reading his morn foreign business averaged about 35% in ing paper over the shoulders of the boys dollars of our total business, whereas in about three deep and the strain is getting June 1940, it was only 10%. The decrease him down. One news hound can even in foreign business has been made up by read the paper upside down, claims Bill. increased domestic business primarily as a result of increased defense purchases by Chet Newell had a good golf score on the Federal Government. the Portland links the other day. He Drafting has been practicallycompleted would—who's to say no way up there. on a number of new items which are in tended for the new catalog, and we al Our friends Betty Dolliver and Clint ready have a substantial backlog of un Carlisle are planning to run in double filled orders. Consequently, there seems harness. They expectto saytheir "I do's" to be no danger of short-time operations along about the 12th of October. We even if business should not keep up at its wish them the best of luck and hope they present rate in the immediate future. will be veryhappy. A perusal of the archives leads us to On June 27th, 150 members of Insti this interesting fact. The lastpair of G.R. tute of Radio Engineers visited the plant employees to team up for life wereMarge and were conductedthrough the shop and and Merrill Hobart. This was fourteen laboratories. They were attending the years ago which shows that it takes history annual convention of the Institute held a long time to repeat itself. this year in Boston. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

BASEBALL NEWS STRAY THOUGHTS It is with regret that the G. R. baseball management announces the disbanding of Clothes make the man, and reveal how the team. the woman is made. At the first of the season the club voted upon the question of whether we should When we have done our best, we may continue in the Park Department league await the result without anxiety. or should joinan industrial league. Several ballclubmanagers of local con The pleasantestthrill, bar none, is find cernstelephonedaboutthat timeand asked ing a dime in an old pair of trousers. us to join their league; so we voted to do just that, reasoning that the players on If you can take defeat kindly, you are such teams would be about our calibre, already on the highway to success. oldermen working all day, etc. When the actual playing season started, we found A man does notgrow wise as he grows that the only time that* these industrial old, buthegrows old ashegrows wise. clubs could play was Saturdays and Sun days so we were left out in the cold, no NothingiTopened morebymistake than opponents and, worse luck, no fields. the mouth. The only field that we could get was They all laughed when I stepped up to Fresh Pond field and that, as all those who the Piano. They didn't know I was from have played on it know, is a very discour the finance company. aging field. Our next worry was players. If all of Happiness is like measles; you cannot the ball playersin G. R. would have turn have it without giving it to someone else. ed out for our games, we could have had a far differentstory on the scoresheet. The biggest disappointment is meeting As things turned out, we probably someone we've heard so much about. should have joined the Park Department league in the first place and early enough A college degree seldom hurts a chap in the season so that we could have had if he's willing to learn something after good ball fields to play on. Also with a he graduates. prearranged schedule, it would have been easier for the players to arrange theirtime A friend is a person who comesin when to fit in with the time of the various the whole world has gone out. games. The management of the team wishes to "The bravest man I ever knew," said thank each and every man, whether he the explorer, "Was the chap who took a played all games or one, for his support. taxi to the bankruptcy court, and then, in We hope that next year, with a pre steadof paying his fare, invited the driver arranged schedule, every ball player will in as a creditor." respond and that the people of G. R. will become loyal rooters for our club. They say hard work never killed any D. J. Martin, Manager, one, but it has scared a lot of people half H. H. Dawes, Business Manager. to death. The hardest thing to do about making Professor's daughter: "Circumstances a speech is to know what to do with your compel me to decline a marital arrange ment with a man of such inferior pecuni hands. ary resources." Blessed are the poor; they don't feel Student Suitor: "Er, ah—I don't get much of a bump when they hit bottom. you." Professor's daughter: "That's just what A politician's greatest asset is his lie I'm telling you." ability. GENERAL RADIO NEWS The goodold game of love, says a nov teed for a periodof one year, after which, elist, is the same as it was thousands if if any component parts other than power years ago. Except that diamonds have transformers or power filters fail, a charge replaced clubs. is made to cover replacements. Although the calibration of an instrument is guaran Be thrifty and the government will tax teed for one year, it will, in many in you. stances, be quiteaccurate up to two years. Every General Radio instrument perhaps The only after-dinner speech that is as should be returned after two years' ser sured of a big hand is: "Put it all on one vice to be completely reconditioned and check, please." recalibrated. A year's guarantee is then made. An Irishman was seated in the office of It is really surprising that an average oneof the city Officials, awaiting his turn. of only 17 percentof the total numberof The attendant noticed he had a pipe in instruments sold are ever returned for re his mouth and politely informed him conditioning and recalibration for which there was no smokingallowed there. charges are made. No doubt many of our "I'm not smokin'," answered Tim leis customers take^jreat pride in possessing urely. General Radio equipment and exercise "But you have a pipe in your mouth." special care in its operation and main "Sure, I have. And I've got shoes on tenance, thus eliminating return to the my feet but I'm not walking." factory for servicing. It might also be that some customers can not return equipment Clerk: "Can I have the afternoon off because of necessity during busy periods to go shopping with my wife?" and when the periods slacken, either have Boss: "No." no further use for it or decreased budgets Clerk: "Thanks." do not permit reconditioning. Some charge repairs are made within the first FACTS CONCERNING year due to damage by the customers, but INSTRUMENT RETURNS the greatest number of instruments are {Continued from last month) serviced during the second and third years. From records that have been kept dur The only exceptions are the Type 759-A ing the past six years, it has been found Sound-Level Meter and the Type 631-A than an average of 8 percent of the total Strobotac, which are in more or less con number of instruments sold are either re stant use in industrial plants and, because turned for no-charge service within the of their types of service, requirecondition guarantee period of one year or have de ing almost every year. We expect from fective conditions remedied by corre 50 percent to 75 percent of all the sound- spondence and shipment of replacement level meters and Strobotacs that we have parts. Much of the General Radio equip ever sold or will sell to be returned to the ment is of complex design and construc factory at some time for reconditioning tion and a fair proportion is shipped to and recalibration. countries outside the United States. This While no statistical comparisons have percentageseemsquite gratifying, particu been made between our service require larly when many of our instruments are ments and those of kindred manufactur shipped thousands of miles in various ers, it is believed that the figure of 25 types of carriers. While we expect and percentof all the instruments that are ever look forward to a gradual decrease in this sold or returned for servicing, charge or percentage, we can not hope for less than no-charge, is quite low, more particularly 4 percent, primarily because of difficulties when comparison is made with manufac with component parts of critical nature, turers of refrigerators, business machines, such as tubes, thermostats, etc. automobiles, oil burners, and even radios, The other question is not very difficult in which cases practically every item sold to answer. 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Vol. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1940 No. 11

PERSONALS The News Staff would like to know Here is a list, in chronological order of why their Editor-in-chief arranges to take the G. R. romances that resulted in ma all his trips, vacations, etc. at the time the trimony. This list is compiled after ard News goes to press. They do not accuse uous study of all available records of the Pete of shirking his duty but they would subject, so we believe it to be reasonably like to have a reasonable excuse for his correct. Miss Doris Ballard and Mr. R. S. actions. MacArthur; Miss Florence Hoefler and Mr. H. B. Richmond; Miss Marion Charlie Worthen and John Blake are Roberts and Mr. Gardiner Crafts; Miss recovering from their rhus dermatitis Marjory Nobbs and Mr. Merrill Hobart; (poison ivy to you.) Miss Eleanor Clapp and Mr. Lawrence Arguimbau—pending; Miss Betty Dolli- ver and Mr. Clint Carlisle—pending. We understand that John Wade and Our own Eleanor Clapp and Larry his wife were parking somewhere in Arguimbau intend to middle aisle it. Braintree recently. Their enjoyment of They plan to have the knot tied on Sep the cool evening breezes was interrupted tember 7th in Philadelphia. Miss Clapp by an arm of the law who requested them left G. R. on August 30. We wish them to drive on. a long and happy married life. They will make their home in Cambridge. Wonder why some of the boys mis When a confirmed woman-hater like pronounce the names of fellows with Argy falls it is NEWS. He used to say whom they have been working for years. "Bah! Females! What good are they." They would like to add an "s" to Field, He is not following theadvice hegave us Searle, Park, and Chute (which has no when we were planning to take the fatal "s" anywhere.) Holm ispronounced just step. the way it isspelt, Bousquet and Henuset should be pronounced Buskay and Dick Dennis left on his vacation Henusay. Two of the most difficult are August 30. He plans on a trip to Cali Adrian and Fortis which should be pro fornia to visit with friends and relatives, nounced Pete and Bill. expecting to be with us again October 7. Eight of our group started August 16th The creaking you hear around the Lab. for the Grand Lakes in the northern part lately is the result ofa roller skating party of Maine for a two weeks fishing trip. at Nantasket. The affair was instigated Dave is not with the gang this year, he by Al Webb who chaperoned the party having decided on some mountain climb consisting of Henry (I want a sailboat) ing in the White Mountain Region with Maling, George Klemn, Bob Ruplenas his threeoldest boys. and Charlie Cady. Paul Litchfield went along to watch the fun. George became tired while skating backwards so he sat Miss Eleanor Clapp was tendered a on a chap who had bent over to fix his shower by the G. R. girls at the home of skate. Henry was not very successful in Lucille Purdon Wednesday evening, Au his attempts to skate backwards. Each gust 28. Several of theyoung ladies were trial landed him on the floor. He perse unable to attend being away on vacations. vered but was so tired that he had to Many lovely as well as practical gifts stretch out on about fifteen camp stools were received. and sleep all the way home. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

I. Wambold while away on his vacation CASH AND CABBAGE stepped on a rusty nail, which made his The other day we listened to a verbal last week very unpleasant though he re blitzkrieg on the exhorbitant charges turned to work the following week. made by the G. R. Credit Union for the The following paragraph referring to use of "other people's money." The evi the left-handed golfers championship, dent concern of the gentleman amused was taken from the Boston Herald of us no end because not only was it un August 23. "Mr. E. H. Locke of Lex founded but we have listened to the same ington supplied the only upset of the day criticism time and time again. It's the when he tipped over Griff Fallon of same old story that a guy with a lot of Wollaston, a former champion and run dough must be guilty of dirty work at the ner-up in the medal round, 3 and 2, with cross-roads. "The guy" in this case must a medal score of 84. Fallon was unset be the Credit Union which is made up of tled by the loss of several of his clubs and managed by every member so, if the over night." gentleman's contention is correct, all the One well known person is wondering members of the Credit Union must be if Mr. Locke has any left-handed clubs to guilty of nefariojus negotiations. be disposed of. The gentleman'was so convinced that The Lab. crew had a dinner party at we are unduly hard on the borrower, only Herman (photographer) Ausin's house in this case the gentleman has never bor recently. The self invited guests were: rowed but is apparently carrying the torch Ed Fuller, who instigated the affair; Ivan for us all, that we thought perhaps we Easton, Weldon (where are my shoes) maynot be doing right by little Nell. Al Morrison, Chet Starkey, Bob Chaffee, ways willing to admit of an error, we de Merrill Hobart, Henry (which end of the cided to take a look at the records and needle is the point) Maling, Rudy Recke, see what's going on. Charlie Cady, Bob Ruplenas, Randall Analyzing the last 100 loans we find (bridegroom to be) Alexander, and Paul that we had loaned a total of $12,923 for Litchfield. The dinner consisted of a an average period of 44 weeks and at a choice of fried clams or lobster salad total cost to the borrower of $577. 7 out with all the fixings topped off by blue of every 10 loans are written for a period berry pie. There were no complaints of 50 weeks. This money was loaned at about the meal. the rate of 5% discounted. The word It is reported by a usually reliable "discounted" has always been considered source that Hobe won the eating contest the root of all our evil but for simplicity with Henry a close second. The ball of collection it is obvious that this method game was very popular when the time is superior to any other. Of course, as a came to wash the dishes. The boys were partial rebuttal, may we say that refunds entertained by Charlie Cady's movies and on prepaid loans are figured in the same Bob Chaffee's colored slides. manner. This amount of money borrow The party was mighty expensive for ed in the same small amounts from ad Ed. Fuller because the movies were so vertised loan agencies for a period of 10 good that the bug hit him and now he months would cost at least $2132 at the has a camera and projector. legal rate of 3% a month on unpaid bal Big Sandy returned from his vacation ances or about $1048 at the "new reduced to find that thieves had broken into his rates". "But," says the gentleman, "I can home. They had covered the floors with get a loan from a bank in town for 5% burnt matches, emptied bureau drawers, straight interest." We mayanswerby say and generally ransacked the place. For ing that if the application was accepted, tunately they overlooked many valuable and they are much more critical than we, articles and the only thing missing was a isn't the time and bother involved to say revolver. An item of this sort in our nothing of the carfare and money order localpaper, "Mr. and Mrs. So and So are expense worth something? Does any bank enjoying a pleasant vacation at Mud Lake" you know of have the same pick up and is an invitation to the sneak thief. delivery service we have? Are lending GENERAL RADIO NEWS 3 agencies as lenient as we are when the Forty-five of these loans included rewrit- borrower is out sick and the loan payment ing unpaid loan balances amounting to may well be used for a better purpose? 25% of the total principal and to obtain Does any bank give one hour service as new money. $99 was refunded for this we do when the need is urgent? rewritten indebtedness. What do we do with all this money we ^e ma? mention in passing that our earn on our loans. Looking at the Profit ratl0 °^ Ioans t0 shares was one of the and Loss account for the last 2 dividend smallest examined in the forementioned periods we find that for every dollar survey- Itis not uncommon among Credit charged borrowers as interest 77 cents Unions t0 accept as shares from members were paid back to the members as divi- no more money than may be loaned plus dends and 17 cents were added to the a smaU am°unt of cash on hand. It is Guarantee Fund and the Undivided Earn- true *** *" increases the dividend rate ings accounts which, in the event of dis- but tends to ^courage savings which we solution of the Credit Union, would also have never considered agood practice, be paid to the members. Due to unusually For "^ doIIar payment on a loan low overhead only 6cents of every dollar &2Al were paid against shares. A wise earned were charged to expense. May PIan practiced by some is to continue mak- we mention herethat the result of an ex- ing the same weekly payments on their tensive survey conducted recently by the share mc000* that they did on their loan Farm Credit Administration indicated that ffter *** Ioan has been Paid UP> the theory the G. R. Credit Union, yes, that's us, bemS that theF Sot donS dl riSht paying showed the lowest operating expense and back ttie Ioan so they should get along the highest ratio of dividends of any ^P^Y as well saving the same amount Credit Union examined. So you see that and eventually they wouldn't have to while it may seem tosome that we charge k°rrow- a lot we also give a lot back. For ^"7 dollar borrowed $1.78 were m ,., , ,. , . ., . withdrawn from share accounts. Theor- whT!,i n ^\*m#\wf Pf°Ple etically, based on the past interest charges, who are redly interested and who like to these members saved themselves about find out the facts before they form an $1028. because they saved before they opinion. They say that wisdom oft comes spent. We won't mention the amount of from the mouths of babes but never from dividend these shares earned before with- theheads of cabbage. drawal. While we were digging up the preced- We firmly believe that the Credit Un- ing data we came across some other inter- lon ^s a definite need in that it not only esting facts which, if you can spare a provides a convenient and safe repository minute, we'd like to pass on. These fi- f°r surplus funds but that it offers a gures are gathered from business trans- source of ready cash when you need it acted from,Oct. 1, 1939 to July 31, 1940, most- Theamount of money it may save during which timewewrote the 100loans a borrower is secondary to the service it mentioned above. We found that people fenders each and every member. borrowed money for the following reas- ons: ISTnS^eUKh0'deXpenSeS f, n>lStr™d^feauUr"andSeeh°W Real estate improvement 12 ««"ook'•> *emorning papers." Taxes i2 • New cars n Somebody asked acollege profesor how Repairs on cars 6 science helped business and he replied, ^f0™? 4 "What would the suspender business Vacations 3 amount to without the law of cravita- Mortgagepayment 1 tion?" GENERAL RADIO NEWS

BUSINESS Friendship is a plant that one must Again we have been fortunate in re often water. ceiving a large amount of domestic busi ness during the current month. This has Take care of the pennies and the gov replaced the lost foreign business. ernment taxes will take care of the dol Through August twenty-fifth new orders lars. received total $104,000; thus the pros pects arecertain for an excellent August. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. Note—Average of 4750 piece rates are set each year, this amount of course varies Tears are the water power and laughter depending on amount and type of busi the wind power which turns the machin ness being done in each period. During ery of life. 1940 with the introduction of many new instruments to the line, plus government We are as big as the things that annoy contracts, should increase the number of us. rates set, this year to an amount well above the average. The trick in being contented is to buy Roughly 80% ofrates set pay premium one model and never read the advertise with an average return of approximately ments of the others. 25% above top day rate in departments, with an individual variation in return from a low of2.5% to a top of45%. MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY This of course is set up on individual Design us an engine the head men say average bases and some jobs have paid And it's got to be built insuch a way a return in excess of 45%. That if it should stall or fail to start The dumbest mechanic can take it apart, 1937 1938 1939 Average Average Average Can just lay it down on an ordinary bench time time time And dothe whole jobwithan oldStill- Jobs per job Jobs per job Jobs per job Dept A 865 33.4 909 30.3 927 28.3 son wrench. Dept. M 3450 6.6 3217 6.0 3909 5.5 Make the parts as simple as they can be Dept. T 320 9.9 86 15.6 172 13.5 So they'll all interchange with a model Dept. TS 538 6.2 456 7.2 552 6.5 T. Dept. C 975 13.1 1097 8.9 1142 7.1 Dept. C 91 17.1 79 16.5 98 14.9 And cost isa factor tokeep in mind (Cond) So eliminate gadgets of every kind. Dept. W 436 24.2 653 12.2 526 16.7 But much as it goes against the grain Dept. WT261 18.1 368 12.4 455 11.1 Dept. WR 219 11.7 213 7.0 289 6.8 There are certain things you must re Dept. WV217 29.4 214 27.9 301 27.6 tain: Dept. E 465 7.4 505 3.8 541 5.8 Dept. The dual ignition, the oversize sump, D 220 9.3 324 8.3 205 7.8 The hydro control—and the vacuum Totals 8057 8121 pump. 9117 And one thing more—(now don't get STRAY THOUGHTS mad), "Here's something queer," said the den A supercharger you'd better add. tist who had been drilling into a tooth. It must run on the cheapest of gasoline, "You said this tooth had never been filled, Or better still, on kerosene. but I find flakes of gold on the point of And three thousand horses it has to show my drill." r With an oil consumption of zero. "I knew it," groaned the patient. And there is something else I forgot to "You've struck mycollar button." say— The date of delivery is yesterday. And on second thought, there's one thing A man of vision is usually one who more— sees things thesame way you do. It's got to be sold in a ten cent store. General Radio News Published by the employees ofthe General Radio Co., Cambridge, Mass.

Vol.2 OCTOBER, 1940 No. 12

REMEMBER When Hollis worked on B-eliminators? When theGeneral Radio Company had When Bill Grove worked in the gas only one floor in the building now oc house? cupied by the Mayflower Lunch on How good Gardy Crafts could imi tate a drunk? Massachusetts Avenue? How easily Spike Speigle would get When Mr. Eastham used to dig down excited and begin sputtering? inhis pocket to pay for CO.D. shipments HowTom Linton blinked his eyes? received? How sore Andy MacDonald got when When Mr. Shaw was the bookkeeper someone mentioned how his wooden leg and laid the foundation for our present was stolen one night? system ? When Mr. Shaw heard of a young FORMER EMPLOYEES fellow named Eastham that could surely "Ferd" Schaller, who formerly worked answer any question he might ask re in various departments throughout the garding variable air condensers, and thus shop is now in Washington, D. C, as a started an association that still exists? sales and service representative for Pica When Walter Sherwood was shop su X-Ray Corporation. perintendent? Tom Morse is now maintenance en When Al Lufkin was office manager? gineer for a largebakery in Dover, N. H. How Mr. Locke shortly after A.C. sets Tom isa former member ofthelaboratory came in used to walk around the huge group. pile of condensers stored on the third R. S. MacArthur, who used to be em floor of building No. 1 with a dubious ployed in our sales group, is now a sales expression on his face? representative in this territory for Tung- When P. K. McElroy was a youngster Sol Lamp Works. out of college? Carroll Swift, now sales representative When Charlie Carey was foreman of with Rust Proofing Corporation, was at the winding department? one time an employee in the production When H. B. Richmond wore bow ties? office. When Doris Hall was switchboard Jack Lamson, formerly of Bill Fish's operator? department, is now managing Leo Kap When Bob Patterson was a condenser lan's Dairy Farm at Sheffield, Mass., hav maker for Comrie? ing 100headof milkingHolsteins. When Chet Newell made rheostats? Wallace Battison, formerly of Dave When Bill Regan set rates? Martin's department, is now working on How Bid (Baron Munchausen) Allen special production for the National Com had an experience to relate for each day pany of Maiden. of the week? Ex-department C, Worthy Beeler is How quiet and sedate Bill Fish was in now an army recruiting officer stationed his youth? at Yarmouth, N. S. When Arthur Rohman had a realaccent Former superintendent A. C. Zwicker and called Thursday "Pie di?" now runs the Zwicker Sharpening Service When Ray Searle was ayoung whipper- in Arlington. snapper out of school? George Musgrave, who left us to work When Knute Johnson was practically in an aircraft factory has returned and is the production department? now working in the Watertown Arsenal. When we wonderedwhat we woulddo He has also moved his family from with all the extra room in building num Arlington back to Natick where he for ber one? merly resided. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

We would like to continue this ex- Of interest to many will be the fall employee column; so please let us know wedding of Miss Agnes R. Sliney to Al about other old timers. fred H. Parlee on Nov. 2.

GOLF There has been a great rush of fisher The G. R. golf season is rapidly draw men to the Cape Cod Canal lately. This ing to a close. The team matches were is a result of the snapshot of Ed. Parssi- completed on September 14th with the nen's striped bass that was displayed on team of E. H. Locke, Paul Penney, R. J. the bulletin board. Patterson, and Carl Erickson in the lead'. The individual handicap tournament D. H. Chute wishes to apologize to all this year had only eight contestants en those poor unfortunates who smoked his tered because of the frequency of Satur father's day cigars. He tried one later day work. The final of the tournament himself and it was terrible. will be at Lexington on October 5th be tween E. H. Locke and A. W. Cleveland. The birth of Charles Clifford Chute on September^ disbanded another chap PERSONALS ter of the Skeptics Society (apologies to Arthur Edgecombe is at the Baker Me P.K.). morial for an operation. Those wishing to visit him may do so between the hours of 2:30 to 3:30 P.M. and 7:30 to 8:30 There has been a burst of kodachrome slide activity in the Lab. lately. P.M.

The wedding of Miss Maryan Dunlap Have you-all seen little Willie Hart's of the accounting department to Mr. new tin lunch box? "Verum cute." Shirley W. Packard was held at the Mt. Vernon Congregational Church, Satur Bowling got underway Sept. 24th, at day, September 14th. Several girls from 5 P.M. at the Central Alleys, with 10 the office attended the wedding. After teams of five men each. The spirit of a honeymoon spent in the mountains the competition is high and we expect to see Packards will be at home at 116 Riverway, some past records broken this year. Boston. Russell Hatch, formerly of Searle's Elton Chase, who works for Fred How- department, left the company employ land, recently purchased his first car. Friday, Sept. 13 to study for the ministry Nice going, Al. at Tilton Academy. A purse was pre sented to Russ upon his departure. Joe Lanza finally made up his mind as to what type of outboard motor he wanted The last card from Dick Dennis was and purchased a Zephyr 5 H.P. from Kingston, Arizona. He planned on spending three days at Yellowstone Thirty-three of the boys attended a stag National Park. party at T Wharf Inn given for Randall Alexander, Duane Carlisle, and Robert Something was seen speeding through Ruplenas. Everyone spent a very pleas the Lab. one morning recently. Upon ant evening. closer examination, it was found to be Henry Maling on roller skates. Can anyone beat this record? Chris Peak got out of bed at 7:42 one morning, We understand on good authority that put on his pants, shirt, socks and shoes, there are approximately 7000 panes of (we didn't sayhow) jumpedin his jalopy glass in our main building. outside the Tech dorm, and punched in We heard Paul Hanson moaning about on Andy's clock at 7:49. Incidentally he the replacement of 123 panes of glass in is the fire chief of his frat house. the garage. GENERAL RADIO NEWS

In order to handle with greater effi BUSINESS ciency our increasing sales, especially in Although not as energetic as the last the mid-West, several moves are being three months, when orders for each month made in the EngineeringDepartment. were approximately $130,000, the cur Around the first of September, Luke rent rate still remains satisfactory. With Packard left for New York with his fam just over two-thirds of the month gone ily, and boat, to take charge of the New new orders now total $71,000, thus indi York office. Soon after Packard arrived, cating that the month should cross Fred Ireland returned to Cambridge for $100,000, which is close to the capacity a week to catch up on the latest news at rate, particularly if allowance is made for the home office. He is now on his way, special Government work now in pro with his family and new Buick, to Los cess. Angeles, taking the motor trip as his ANALYSIS OF ORDERS vacation. An analysis of G. R. orders received during the month of August yields the Some of our readers may be interested following information. to know that the following are active 80.6% ,o£ total orders were domestic ReserveOfficers of the U.S. Army: Harold and 19.4% foreign. . This, as compared Wilkins, Captain of the 305th Chemical with two years ago, when the proportion Regiment; Duane Carlisle, First Lieuten was approximately two thirds to one third, ant of the Coast Artillery; Randall indicates the extent which our foreign Alexander, Second Lieutenant of the 94th business has been reduced. The invasion Signal Company. of France was the turning point and since that time foreign business has varied be The height of something or other: The tween 10 and 20% of the total. With fellow who buys a quart of milk outside, the exception of an occasional sizable or and uses the new refrigerator to keep it der from Russia, the onlyEuropean coun cool until noontime. try with whom we are doing any amount of business is England. Add these to the list of often mispro Incidentally, orders going to Russia nounced names: Thiessen should be pro are now routed across the Pacific, through nounced Teesen; Sinclair should be pro the Russianport of Vladivostok and then nounced Sinkler. by the Siberian railroad to the industrial section of Russia—a distance of approxi English Professor: "Mr. Gish, correct mately thirteen thousand miles as com this sentence. 'Girls is naturally better pared with the usual Atlantic route of looking than boys'." about six thousand miles. Freshman Gish: "Girls is artificially What few recent orders we have sent better lookingthan boys." to Finland and Swedenhave been shipped to the far northern port of Petsamo which is reported to be three hundred and fifty Mother: "That brazen Miss Vamp miles from the nearest railwayterminal. borsts that she had been kissed by every When classifying domestic customers, married man in town except one!" we find that the three largest classes in Father (absently) "I wonder who he order of dollars of sales are Radio and can be." Television Manufacturers, the United States Government and miscellaneous Notice: Sometime this month there Electrical Manufacturers. Broadcasting will be news boxes placed on each floor Stations come sixth on the list. for the convenience of those who wish Domestic business divided by sections to contribute articles. Please scribble indicates that slightly over 85% of the your notes on a piece of paper and we total domestic business is done with cus will do the rest. They do not have to be tomers in the northeastern and north cen signed. tral section of the United States. GENERAL RADIO NEWS STRAY THOUGHTS Every man should leave a will, if only Year by year and month by month the for thepleasure of saying his say without experts become less helpful. hearinganybacktalk. Those who like change are now getting We count our blessings on our fingers plenty of it and our mistakes on an adding machine. Does every insurance man look with A crisis creates the energy to conquer grave concern upon the financial and it. family affairs of every prospective cus tomer? Some fellows certainly make a great fuss over their wives—in public. Yesterday's problems were bad enough, but today's are worse. The war has made us forget a lot of In reading, we frequently encounter little troubles, but we continue togrumble when the salt-shaker is empty or the salt passages that we're confident the author is damp. . ^ didn't understand when he wrote them.

The irony is that so often we have to FIELD DAY undo tomorrow what we did today. The climax of the G. R. social season was marked by the eighth annual engin In estimating personal expenses, we eers weekend at Mr. Field's camp at the usually are too optimistic about laundry sign of the squirrel in Meredith, N. H. and dry-cleaning, and we always forget on Lake Winnepesaukee. tips andpostage stamps. Theguests were Peterson, Hollis, Lam- son, Karplus, Wilkins, Buckingham, Treat yourself to a good timeand take Easton, Thiessen, Burke, Hills, Ireland, your wife along occasionally. Packard, and McElroy. Thirteen nuts journeyed safely from G. R. tothe squirrel Unless the small business man can af on Friday the thirteenth of September; ford tohire a good bookkeeper, how does and the fourteenth arrived on the Four he ever find time to make out all the re teenth. ports that the government agencies re Karplus and Packard led the field at quire? mealtime. Horatio spent all Saturday morning learning how to sail the Field We prepared ourselves for a different canoe, and took Karplus sailing in it all world from the one in which we find Sunday morning. ourselves. Wilkie kept the boat slide trap from working by warning everyone not dressed Why do we kick about the radio—it's for a ducking, that it was slippery. Pete practically free and if we don't likeit, we eluded him, but managed to fall in the don't have to listen to it. boat instead of the lake. Everyone enjoyed the swimming and The kids being born today will get by, sailing. R. F. was careful to go along and so will you. each time his new sailboat was used! On the firstweekendin 1932, the whole Speech may be free, but it usually costs crowd climbed Mt. Chocorua. Since then a lot if you say "yes" too often. the mountains climbed have become lower and the number climbing has decreased. So live that you won't be ashamed to This year when Karplus suggested that sell the family parrot to the town gossip. one could drive nearly to the top of Mt. Belknap, only four hardy souls could be Some people seem to have natural tact, induced to walk that short distance. This and some blurt out the truth. is known as conservation of energy.

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