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During June and July, BAE interviewed some 4,200 rural Americans, checking their radio likes & dislikes. Some findings...
Some network officials were soothed by BAE's assurance that the farmer "values radio highly," would miss it if it were taken away. That was neither the question nor the answer. Radio, the modern invention, had long since been proved and approved. What many of the farmers were trying to say: the contraption could be put to better...
There were a lot more: BAE, BLS, DPI, ECC, EHFA, EIB, FCIC, FDA, NIC, NPPC, OADR, OGF, OCR, OLLA, OSRD, SCS, SSB, SSS, USSS, USES, USIS. Hardly a man was now alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon...
...Europe and squander fifteen hundred thousand dollars for trifles of remote historical interest strikes the mere proletarian with a sense of awe. Such a performance is in itself history--or it would have been, if the headline under which the newspaper report of the latest expatiation appeared. "Resenbach Bae's With Napoleon's White Breeches," were not more suggestive of fast work by a second-story man than of dignified collecting. One visualizaes, somehow, not a fine old antiquarian, displaying his acquisitions with solemn pride, but an impertinent juvenile, dancing up and down on Sandy Hook triumphantly waving the Imperial...
...Bae's Embryology of Animals...