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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39
Second Narrator. — A million illiterate Americans have mastered a practical knowledge of reading and writing through WPA classes.
Voice. — More than 200,000 aliens have, through WPA classes, become candidates for American citizenship.
Music. — Chord.
Third Voice. — Health.
Narrator. — Children’s clinics; tuberculosis hospitals; bus service for crippled school children; therapeutic baths; malaria mosquito control; school children’s lunches.
Second Narrator. — A million persons receiving free treatments at 2,000 medical and dental clinics; 3,000 nurses making 23^ million calls to the homes of the needy.
Music. — Chord.
Second Voice. — ^Libraries.
Narrator. — Thirty-five hundred new branch libraries and
4.000 reading rooms. More than 33 million books, reconditioned and repaired and returned to the use of the reading public.
Music. — Chord.
Second Voice. — Conservation.
Narrator. — Fish hatcheries in California, game farms in Massachusetts, wild fowl refuges in Louisiana.
Second Narrator. — Fire breaks in the parched moimtains of the West, wells and water holes in the desert, miles of levees along the great river of the South.
Music.
Voice. — Food and clothes.
Narrator. — Ninety-five million shirts, dresses, and underwear made and distributed to the poor.
Second Narrator. — Thirty-six million pounds of foodstuffs canned or preserved.
Third Narrator. — Six hundred thousand pairs of shoes and
900.000 pieces of furniture repaired.
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