Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Propaganda floods in to Bogotá from Berlin daily in three languages . . . there is no mistaking that the German people are on the crest of the wave and full of themselves -they're exactly like a college with an unbeatable football team...
...Recently German health statistics made the most amazing disclosure of all: that 75% of the male population at one time or another have had some form of venereal disease. This almost incredible figure, in the light of Das Neue Tage-Buch's, researches, may be a consequence not only of the moral paganism preached in the New Germany but also of lowered resistance on the part of young Germans to venereal infection...
Favorite programs of Latin-Americans, it appeared, were news broadcasts, but they were also eager to hear such entertainers as Rudy Vallée, talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
Recently a German Government station stepped up its power, came in louder and chummier than General Electric's broadcasts from Schenectady. Last week General Electric announced a crushing countermove. Ready to go into action within a month is a new 100-kilowatt shortwave transmitter, most powerful in the U. S., known as "Big Bertha." It has directional antennae that will enable it to focus its beam on particular areas. Through G. E.'s two Schenectady stations, W2XAF and W2XAD, Big Bertha will broadcast in Portuguese to South America's eastern half, in Spanish to the western half...
...engineers hope Big Bertha will be powerful enough to come in clearer than its German rivals. Its news will certainly be more credible. Hundreds of South American listeners have lately written to U. S. stations that they regard European newscasts as blatantly biased, those from the U. S. as objective. Said one: "Station W2XAF is considered a semi-official news bureau here. . . . When "we do not hear it, we ignore the news, particularly the foreign news...