Word: wwj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half years has helped place 13,000 persons. Chicago's I Need a Job, over WGN and later WCFL, has placed some 2,400 in less than a year. Last week Detroit's I Want a Job, conducted by the Michigan State Employment Service over WWJ, turned its first birthday. It had placed a modest 225 of 346 applicants who appeared on the program. More interesting than its 225 successes were some of the men for whom it found no jobs...
Nine radio devotees out of ten have doubtless heard or read somewhere that KDKA was the first regular broadcasting station in the U. S. Great, therefore, was their surprise one night last week when WWJ, operated by the Detroit News, splashed over the air a 16th anniversary program in which it claimed seniority over hoary KDKA...
...WWJ microphone stepped famed Inventor Lee de Forest. Said he: "On the night of Aug. 20, 1920, the first commercial radio broadcast station in all the world was opened. And every night and every day since that momentous beginning WWJ has maintained this service...
...until eleven weeks after its founding did WWJ share the channels of the air with a rival broadcasting station...
KDKA was by no means willing last week to let priority go to WWJ without a struggle. Stubbornly declared a Westinghouse spokesman: "Westinghouse, in starting radio station KDKA, developed the term 'broadcasting.'" Unable to get around the solid fact of the Detroit station's priority on the calendar, KDKA argued that it was operating under its present call letters 16 months before WWJ was assigned its present letters on March 3, 1922. Against this was WWJ's claim that it had received its third license (in October, 1921) before KDKA applied for its first. KDKA...