The Archive · 1925

RADIO DEVELOPMENT

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 26.

General J. G. Harbord, retired, president of the Radio Corporation fof America, arrived here to-day land announced that a high-powered radio station would be constructed Jat Rio de Janeiro jointly by his com-Jpany and British, French and German interests. The new station, he /said, probably would be in operation in November. ill be the second high-powe: station in South America with over-stas contact with the United States and Europe. The other one is at Buenos Aires. It ix proposed to construct a third one at Pernambuco.

General Harbord, on his trip to South America, will study"the pos-radio sta tions on the West Coast of the con {inent.—Reuter's American Service.

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