Word: radiomen
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...Bowes to a half-hour (CBS, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.); Lipton's Tea canceled Helen Hayes after Feb. 1 (CBS, Sunday 8 p.m. E.S.T.); then the Ford Motor Co. canceled the Ford Sunday Evening Hour (CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), effective March 1. This was a grievous blow, and radiomen looked for more to follow...
...Censor Byron Price and his assistant for radio, stocky J. Harold Ryan of Toledo, sent out radio's first wartime "Code of Practices." Because a few powerful domestic stations (such as Salt Lake City's 50-kw. KSL) have been heard across the Pacific, they told radiomen to be careful even in the use of already censored press news. They warned against references to the weather during sports broadcasts. They also detailed the topics upon which only official information can be given...
Farmers snarled, radiomen howled, railwaymen whistled, but Congress decided to give the U.S. daylight-saving time-the year round, for the duration...
...would radio showmanship in the U.S. rise to the occasion of war? Mindful of radio's potency over the public mind, radiomen had given this question anxious thought. They (and everyone else) got an answer of a sort last week from the Bill of Rights anniversary program. Heard by more people than any other U.S. radio "show" in history, it might serve as a touchstone for future patriotic programs...
Today the Air Forces is working up to a rate of 30,000 new flyers a year, is training its fledglings in 80 civilian and military schools. At 38 more schools it is training gunners, navigators, bombardiers as well as shoals of needed mechanics, radiomen, etc. From schools like Illinois' Chanute Field (enrollment 20,000) and Colorado's Lowry Field (10,000) the Air Forces expects 100,000 technicians a year...