Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoaxers MacAuley and Stewart confessed that they culled the first three lines of Culture as Exhibit from a U.S. report on mosquito breeding grounds...
This is a typical "commercial" on the Mosquito Network, a South Pacific branch of the Armed Forces Radio Service. U.S. Army doctors hope that the plug for Toujours Gai will lead G.I.s to use' their insect repellent, which not only smells bad but is also considered sissified by many fighting...
...Mosquito Network consists of just five* of AFRS's 100 stations and 200 public-address systems now established, from Greenland to China. But its tiny 50-watt voices are very welcome in a lonely area where short-and medium-wave reception is uncertain...
Ants in the Plant. Mosquito's first transmitter (Noumea) opened up last February. Built and operated by Major Purnell Gould, peacetime manager of Baltimore's Station WFBR, and his staff of former commercial radiomen, the network at first had tough going. "Juice ants" fancied the insulation around the transmitter wiring and ate it, causing short circuits; microphones had to be blown out twice a day with bellows because fungus sprouted from them. AFRS's biggest single problem was getting receiving sets for its soldier audience. Furthermore, ordinary radio sets were good for only about four months...
...Mosquito's weekly broadcasting includes 13½ hours of U.S.-made AFRS transcriptions, 28½ hours of decommercialized U.S. network shows-flown in from the States. The rest is local material, ranging from the reading of war correspondence in the area to burlesques such as McGoo's Booze Hour ("Next time you visit your PX take home a handy family-size container of McGoo's Old Man in the convenient 60-gallon drum...