The annual wireless exhibition at JOlympia which opened on, Thursday good has started off in fine style judging from the orders which were booked Jduring the first day. An order of £300,000 from South America alone is something which would start any show off with considerable of a flip, another firm estimated its business for the day at £60,000, making the casual reader of such a despatch Jwonder what was the aggregate of [business booked by the whole of the exhibitors, of which Olympia car house many hundreds. The attend pace of 15.000 also was good. and there are prospects year" Jdisplay will exceed in returns anything that has preceded it. From a particular point of view this is essentially gratifying, but from a feral aspect It is even more. s0. Radio after all, or at least the great jer part of the' business, is chiefly a luxury trade, even though by some nations it has become something Jof a necessary. The thought con sequently arises that if the world at large can turn ils mind to the acquisition of a luxury in Increasing Jquantities, the diversion of expenditure front necessaries to luxuries must bee interpreted as a further proof that the world at large witnessing the commencement of 1 upgrade movement which economists professed to see towards the end of fast year. Such positive indications lore calculated to weigh more with the private individual than the high sounding, promunciamentoes of ex-pris, and though it would be fool fo think that the world has passed very far out of the troubles which Jnave engulfed it, there is reason in the comfort that. can. be "eblained taching to proofs such as these all
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