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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1939-40
Narrator. — This is a portrait of the American Madonna and child painted with cold figures in the year of our Lord 1940. And there is no excuse for this portrait. The best scientific thought and the best scientific care are at the command of the prospective mothers of America. It remains for society to reap the rewards of scientific achievement. And while half the civilized world is telling a story of destruction and death, today we in America paused to tell the story of birth — the greatest human adventure!
Music. — Up full to finish.
Announcer. — ( Should be at least thirty-five years old) Universities are places of research, storehouses of knowledge. They repre¬ sent your investment in a better life.
Each year American universities spend 50 million dollars to support 30,000 research projects. Does that sound like a lot of money? Well, let’s see — 30,000 research projects divided into 50 million dollars equals only 4 dollars and 50 cents per day per project! For this small stun you and all mankind receive the benefits of centuries of knowledge applied to modern problems, to modern living.
You are the stockholders in the libraries, the laboratories, the quiet halls of learning that are America’s universities. You are the beneficiaries in the Human Adventure.
Next week The Human Adventure tells the story of the Black Death, a scourge which swept over Europe with a silent force more deadly than 50,000 bombers. Listen next week to the story of the Black Death!
The Human Adventure is presented each week at this same time, in the interest of learning, over a coast-to-coast net¬ work by the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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