Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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The greatest force that man has ever known for moving men's hearts and minds is in action daily behind the American scene—a household device that brings into tens of millions of living rooms the latest news of our fighting men on all fronts ... the sublime gifts of inspiring music...the quick tonic of comedy and laughter... the welcome relaxation of popular song...blessings all to a nation occupied with the grimmest of tasks. Today, as America's manpower and industrial might begin to make themselves felt on foreign fields, American radio is functioning smoothly, quietly, efficiently. to strengthen Inorale on the home front and solidify the national purpose for the great drive to victory. Fittingly, America's oldest network be- gins its 1942-43 season with the finest parade of programs in its" history—many of them shortwaved to the fighting forces by advertisers glad to provide the boys in the field with these tangible links to home, many others fresh from successful summer tours of leading military camps across the country. They'll be listened to this year more widely, more eagerly, more gratefully than ever. The Network Most People Listen to Most ^^