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From May 1934 Radio-Craft "Radio's Livest Magazine"
Radio on the Installment Plan.
And now comes news from Germany that radio sets can be bought on this installment plan by the use of a small slot machine.
A deposit of about 20 percent secures the set and the remainder is then paid so much per hour of listening; very much on the order of the old quarter in the slot gas meters.
The rate per hour amounts to about 2 cents.
A French A.C.- D.C. Set.
Upon running through a number of French magazines recently, the editor took particular interest in a French version of the popular AC-DC midget receivers which have flooded the American market. This set appeared in Machines Parlantes Et Radio.
The appearance differs mechanically from the stereotype layout found in the American sets. A flat scale across the length of the cabinet, with a running pointer serves as a tuning dial. The speaker is mounted in the usual position at the center of the front panel, and the set is equipped with a tone control, a novelty of which American ultra-midgets do not boast.
It is interesting to note that the set employs American type tubes- the 6A7, 6D6, 75, 43 and 25Z5. These tube have evidently been imported.