Found this 1932 advertisement on the web and wanted to share.
I find the quote from the site funny too.

(( Here is the cool stuff that comes with your 16-Tube All Wave Radio ))

One complete 16-tube chassis with on e dual-ratio dial--new Super-Heterodyne circuit with a range of 15 to 550 METERS.... No plug-in coils---No trimmers.... Large acoustically matched dual speakers....

New CLASS "B" PUSH-PUSH Super Power Amplifier with six times the power of ordinary tubes.... Full band AUTOMATIC VOLUME CONTROL...COLOR-LITE Multi-Wave Band Selector.... STAT-OMIT tuning silencer....

FULL FLOATING VARIABLE CONDENSER... Complete Scientific Shielding.... Absolute tone fidelity.... Image Frequency Suppressor... Fractional Microvolt Sensitivity.... 18-TUNED circuits....

ALL NEW TYPE TUBES, SUPER TRIODES, DUAL AND TRIPLE GRIDS, Two Full Wave Rectifiers, including a new Mercury type, DUAL POWERED-two separate power transformers.

A bigger better, more powerful, more selective, finer toned radio than you've ever seen before.... offered at an amazingly low price direct from the big Midwest factory.

Midwest engineers have far outdistanced all past performances in perfecting this new set.

((Whew, I didn't get a word of this (at least it has "Scientific Shielding", I shudder to think what would happen to the family and livestock if you powered this thing up without it). But at least we know the Midwest engineers are busting ass to perfect this))