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...skirmish started when FCC charged the company had "excess earnings," should therefore slash "burdensome rates" on long-distance calls. Retorted A.T.&T. : lower rates would "stimulate traffic at a time when such stimulation would be contrary to public interest." With business running 33% above last year, the company's lines are already so talkpacked that additional calls could be handled only with more scarce equipment, more hard-to-get manpower. Besides, said A.T.&T., profits are down, not up - FCC "erroneously treated as earnings" over $50,000,000 which the company must pay in Federal taxes...
...FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly-called upon Petrillo (and on NBC President Niles Trammell) to explain the ban on the high-school musicians...
...FCC's Fly made a carefully noncommittal reference to the Smith article last week...
When the U.S. went to war it became urgent to keep all Axis propaganda and communication off the air. For the half dozen busy Government agencies-FCC, OFF, FBI, Office of Censorship, Army & Navy Intelligence-which cupped ears to the country's own linguistic babel, the question was: what were these U.S. foreign-language stations telling or hinting to their listeners...
...FCC did not take the easy way out and crack down on them. It did not do so for good and sufficient reasons. The commission knew that these broadcasters were a potent means of reaching 14,000,000 foreign-born and first-generation Americans, people who might otherwise dial in short-wave programs from Europe in the languages they like to hear. FCC did not have to wait long before it got help from the stations themselves...