Word: radiomen
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...Radiomen also needed reassurance. Viewing the formidable staff of scholars, geographers and analysts swiftly collected by the Colonel, they gathered that a propaganda bureau was being prepared, and that short-wave broadcasters would be required to take dictation, or else. Enough young men around Washington talked like fools to give point to this suspicion. Already stirred up (for other reasons) against FCC, the industry felt that any plan to flim-flam its short-wave audience -built up by years of honest news reporting-should be fought at a hat's drop...
...fact that nobody ever pays a nickel to hear a radio play has had a determining influence on radio scripts and script writers. It means that the usual radio play gets no direct response from the customers, very little from impartial reviewers. Radiomen like to talk as if their stuff were attuned to the twitch of intangible millions, but the truth is that no box office and few critics exist...
...flown by civilian pilots, a choice Hollywood mixture of formula-wise young airline men, resourceful bush-flyers from the Canadian north, tough oldtimers who were veterans of everything from the Spanish Civil War to back-pasture flying services. The attraction was $1.000 a month ($800 for navigators, $500 for radiomen...
...Chairman Fly does not work that way. For radiomen to digest over last weekend, he and a majority of the Commission (four of six) issued an amended set of regulations, to go into effect Nov. 15, on which FCC was obviously prepared for a showdown. Columbia Broadcasting System immediately signified its intention to seek an injunction against FCC in a Federal court. The battle was joined...
...damp, disused, musty wharf shed the 50 men stood and sat, impatient, griped, chilled: newsmen, cameramen, radiomen, technicians, bottleholders. They had been waiting a long time-two weeks at Swampscott, Mass., two days at Rockland, Me. They were angry as a bunch of bears with sore haunches. They were the reception committee for Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the greatest fishing trip that any President of the U.S. had ever undertaken...