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Hoover. To people everywhere in the world last week, men of experience looked good, and even Herbert Hoover, looked a little better. Mr. Hoover, in a broadcast from New York, drew three lessons from the past: 1) experts in manufacturing, industry, labor, transportation, agriculture are essential in a procurement program; 2) board, councils, committees are worthless: one man must control industrial production; 3) politicians must be kept out of the defense pie. Stressing unity of purpose, Mr. Hoover underlined economic regeneration of the U. S. as a prime defense requirement...
...broadcast three services, one of them conducted by the Archbishop of York, to Britain's soldiers and sailors. In Westminster Cathedral, Cardinal Kinsley celebrated High Mass. The King's chaplain, the Reverend Pat McCormick, preached to tense crowds at the Coliseum, famed London vaudeville house. To his munitions workers, now on a seven-day week. Lord Nuffield declared that every man should take for his text on Sunday: "Work and pray...
...speech will be broadcast on stations outside of Boston from 10.15 to 10.30 and rebroadcast on station WEEI from...
...spite of these handicaps, in 1926 two private companies set up transmitters, began broadcasting from Bombay and Calcutta. They might as well have broadcast into a dead mike. The two companies had a known audience of only 3,000 licensed radiowners. The Government of India stepped in, in 1930 bought the two stations, established All-India Radio (AIR). Two years later BBC began broadcasting its Empire programs to India and in 1935 sent smart Lionel Fielden out to make India more radio-minded...
...hear the voices from the ether. Ryots (farmers) looked upon the sound truck with suspicion: they thought it probably meant more taxes. In one mud village skeptical natives listened in ominous silence to the "voice from Delhi"; when the engineer, hitherto unseen, was spotted inside the van after the broadcast, they clamored indignantly that they had been duped. Bokhari, trying to pacify them, promised to bring the voice back while the engineer remained outside, in plain view. Bokhari threw the switch, fiddled with the dials-no sound. Delhi had gone off the air. The villagers reached for stones and Bokhari...