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August 50# 19^4
capaiDle of working on medium or short \;aves, complete v/ith its ov/n engine, generator set, aerial, masts, communication receiver and. microphone equipment, all installed in a Ji-ton I|.-wheel-drive Army lorry. This transmitter is nov; transmitting the hulk of the de¬ spatches back to this country for recording or inclusion ’ live’ in the nightly ..ar Reports*
Finally, a studio lorry is being provided which can work either in conjunction with a mobile transmitter or feed programmes by line to the transmitter should the most accessible point for v/ar correspondents not be the site of the transmitter. In t’.iis studio lorry will be fitted microphones, and reproducing equipment capable of editing the recordings made by correspondents on their hidget or Humber vehicle recorders*
(London Calling)
FDR and. Pewoy Names Deleted From Radio Quiz Programs
The sponsor of one of the top quiz radio programs called together all the people associated with the show and warned them that the program must be non-partisan. “Until the election is over,” he ruled, “you must remove from the lists of questions all those about President Roosevelt. Our show must not take sides during this cam¬ paign. There must be nothing about Roosevelt on the programs" ... “How about mentioning Deviej' s name?" the director suggested ... “Dewey’s name must not be mentioned," the sponsor ruled, "because that would remind the listeners about Roosevelt."
(Leonard Lyons, Syndicated U. Y* Column)
i.lr * Fly’s Swan Song?
The question has been raised if the address Chairman James L. Fly, of the Federal Communications Commission is making today (Wednesday) to the NAB War Convention in Chicago may not be his swan song to the broadcasting industry. Judging from .Ir. Fly's recent statement, it seems only a question of time until he leaves the Com¬ mission* One person usually well informed ventures the guess that it will be around January 1*
Jeffers of the U. P* Doesn’t Thi nk liucii of Tra in _ Radio
No railroad in America has a finer record of wartime achieve¬ ment in the face of supreme obstacles than that of the Union Pacific.
In accomplishing all this we have drawn upon the practical ex¬ perience and knowledge of men v;ho have grown up on the property and we have not allov/ed ourselves to be stampeded into the use of devices like radio for operating trains, for example v/here theory is sub¬ stituted for that safety which depends upon constant, intelligent ap¬ plication of safe practice developed over 75 years of operation (v’.I:* Jeffers, president of the Union Pacific Railroad in associated Press dispatch from Omaha Au^. 2lj.)*
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