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...North Carolina coast. Two months ago, Brig. General Fulton Quintus Caius Gardner went to work to sharpen civilian eyes, prick civilian ears in 39 counties and 20,758 square miles around Fort Bragg. In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters willing to look & listen from 6 to 10 p.m., 4 to 8 a.m. on designated days...
...journalists and radiomen, this looked like complete success for General Gardner's wonderful net. Publicity was in charge of artillery officers who did not go out of their way to discourage this impression, feeling with the Army at large that the Air Corps has got altogether too many bouquets in recent years. Resentful airmen, aware that they were ordered to fly predetermined courses under conditions which would not obtain in war time, boiled out of their ships with profane explanations. Finally bald, patient General Gardner had to caution newsmen: "Nobody is trying to win a war here...
...country of skyscrapers, rattlesnakes and riches, democracy, oil, ice water, le wild West and le jazz hot. With the hope of broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings of U. S. sounds, songs, scenes. These recordings they planned to take...
Most exciting broadcasts, however, were not straight news but eyewitness impressions by U. S. journalists and radiomen...
Theories grow fast in any sort of advertising business, and radiomen have a theory to account for the behavior of their industry in hard times. Sponsored radio entertainment, they argue, creates a demand not only for the product advertised but also for the entertainment itself. When hard times bring cuts in advertising budgets, sponsors must think twice before they risk the popular vexation which might arise from taking from the public a favorite free show or a popular entertainer. Therefore, sponsors are slow to pull out of radio, quick to return...