Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictator nations think it can-the U.S. will soon be patriotic indeed. By fiat of Dictator Jimmie Petrillo of the musicians' union (TIME, July 21), The Star-Spangled Banner is now played at the beginning & end of every professional musical program. This week employes in the RCA Victor plant in Camden, N.J. heard the national anthem before work every morning, on a Victor record piped through a public address system...
...director of RCA Victor's newly created Department of Patriotic and American Music, she will sing it on tour, will also speak on "Patriotism in Music," organize patriotic songfests...
...flush and 21 with NBC tucked in its corporate back pocket, RCA is still inquisitive. Spotted along the eastern seaboard are eight of its laboratories, where 600 engineers try to improve radio's present, dope out its future. Equipped to examine everything from a $9 receiver to the most complicated electronic devices, the research units are the best in existence. But the best isn't good enough for RCA. Last week RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the company was preparing to build at Princeton, N. J. "the world's largest radio research laboratories," complete with lecture...
According to plans, RCA's Princeton outfit will occupy 300 acres of land, cost over $1,000,000. Expected to be completed by 1942, the property will be adjacent to Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, not far from Princeton University. RCA's research headquarters will profit by being in a nonindustrial area, free of mechanical noises that might interfere with its work...
...Princeton, RCA hopes to continue television's advance technically, to make facsimile broadcasting commercially practical. But whatever else it may do at Princeton, RCA is certain to examine radio from the standpoint of national defense...