Word: wor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a three-year contract in his pocket, Alfred Wallenstein is in Manhattan finishing off his summer broadcasts as WOR's musical director, signing up soloists who will appear with him next winter. In November he will raise his baton over the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
...Department's Special Services Division, began last December with a handmade, low-powered transmitter put together out of old French parts and baling wire. Now the armed forces get 13 hours a day of special recordings from home, news, health tips, and plenty of local talent. WOR-Mutual put the local-talent end of the circuit on the U.S. air by transcription last week, gave the nation its first hearing of G.I. radio at the front...
Western Electric at Kearny, N.J. has a new wrinkle for recruiting woman power: the resonant want ad. Housewives, not in the habit of reading want ads, hear their radios telling of Western Electric's needs at its Kearny factory. Over WOR, department representatives describe vacancies, explain qualifications, stress the importance of women relieving men for the fighting forces. Ex-housewives tell of earning while learning. Results: a weekly average of 30 housewives put to work for Western Electric...
...foreign accent who through sabotage, blackmail, robbery and murder is trying to wreck the vital war industries of Midvale. Can Chick and his companions help Major Pennington protect his new war invention from The Rattler? (Answers given Mondays through Fridays, 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. E.W.T. over WOR-Mutual...
...adopted 17-year-old son of Nick Carter, the Old Master. Nick's present writers, Walter Gibson and Ed Gruskin, are also Chick's. They revived Nick for radio last April. Though on seperate hours (Nick's time is Monday, 9:30 to 10 p.m., WOR-Mutual), Nick and Chick will visit on each other's programs, put their heads together when crime threatens...