"George R. Gonzalez" wrote in message news:jIgeb.639605$Ho3.131537@sccrnsc03...

During WWII, there was just enough space between some tubes in one radio set
to
hide a thin flask of hooch. A later model of the same radio was much
disliked,
as the design was perhaps changed intentionally to eliminate this
cubby-hole.

I can believe that some sets could be used for hooch warmers (BC-375,
the big transmitter found in almost all WW2 bombers), but the front
panel never changed, even to the last 1945 production run. Every other
set that had a hatch of some sort wasn't big enough to hold hooch.

Still, pretty neat. Do you have any other details?

--
William Donzelli