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OWI ADDS TWO NEW 50 KW SHORT WAVE TRANSMITTERS
Two 50-kilowatt high-frequency short wave transmitters, WOOC and WOOW, comprising the first new plant to be installed under the Office of War Infomation ' s plan to expand American internation¬ al broadcasting facilities, began operations Friday, December 31, according to E, K. Cohan, CBS Director of Engineering,
Work on the ultra-modern transmitters was begun last July on the New Jersey grounds formerly occupied by the transmitter of the Columbia Broadcasting System's key station, WABC. The site was chosen by the OWI because of its ideal facilities, including under¬ ground conduits for power and radio circuits, and many acres of property completely cleared of trees and other obstructions factors of great value in the construction and operation of a radio station.
Programs in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Dutch, Czech and Albanian will be beamed to all of Europe over the two transmitters for sixteen hours daily, starting at 10; 45 A, M, Hours of operation will be increased to ■20 hours daily in a few weeks, according to the OWI. Columbia’s overseas engineering operations are under the general direction of G-uy C. Hutcheson.
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HANDS IT TO BRITISH FOR GETTING CIVILIAN RADIOS
A subscriber to this service sends the following clipping reprinted by a Detroit paper from the New York Times;
’’London Britons soon will have a chance to get new radio sets, it was announced today by Capt. Waterhouse, parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade, About 70,000 radios of British manufacture are now getting their finishing touches and 14,000 American sets recently arrived here, it was said. All these sets are for civilians, "
To which our subscriber adds this comment;
"You’ve got to hand it to the English boys. They can get production when we can’t, I have on ray desk a very beautiful paper knife that a friend sent me from England. This beautiful knife is heavy and made from a German bomb. The handle is in the crude form of the bomb material and the blade is beautifully finished highly polished. Stamped on one side is ’London' s Blitz’ and on the other side the name of the manufacturer, 'Asprey, London’. I thought they were in need of metal and man power but evidently they have enough of each to make souvenirs. "
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