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From Paris, Berlin, London, Rome and Moscow every week radiate into the U. S. some half a million words of news and feature talks via the short waves. Berlin's North American Service is on the air eleven hours a day with a self-advertised, "choice assortment of broadcasting viands, sparkling musical champagne and other tasty delicacies ... as well as the regular news features and commentaries." Two U. S. listening posts make it their business to hear almost the whole works...
...this as it may, the fact remains that Victor controls the German patents to the film process of recording, a means of recording on film and reproducing via light waves and photo-electric cells--something like a movie sound track. This may be wild day-dreaming, but isn't it possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch...
With $1,200 and a trip to China via "China Clipper" offered as prizes, an essay contest on the subject of "Our Stake in the Future of China" was announced yesterday. It is open to all university students...
Forty-eight minutes later a similar report from Stockholm via a British news service, Exchange Telegraph, finally reached the U. S. Forty-nine minutes later the British Broadcasting Corp. gave early risers in Britain alarming reports of Denmark's invasion. For confirmation, BBC quoted the New York Times...
Every day they were strafed by German planes which would swoop as low as 15 feet, machine-gunning refugees, who made targets of themselves by running. The Klines lay flat, eventually got all their film and equipment out of Poland via Riga, Latvia...