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

quired by ordinary heat and pres- sure methods. Radio high frequency "furnaces" are a post-war prospect. In them raih'oad ties will be sea- soned quickly and "cakes" of tex- tiles dried uniformly. Even rubber may be "radio-cemented" to wood or plastic; cloth stitched and seamed by radio heat; metals hardened; plywood g-lued and fresh vegetables deactivated without loss of flavor or color. The possibilities in this new thermic realm of radio are unlim- ited as indicated by remarkable advances in RCxA. Laboratories dur- ing the year. Radio broadcasting in 1942 dis- tinguished itself in many fields of useful service. From hour to hour it carried to every listener, the running story of the war. It has kept America informed. The long distance voices in Lon- don or Cairo, Moscow or Melbourne, Algiers or Calcutta, have been as clear as if uttered in Radio City, New York. Radio reporting is one of the outstanding contributions of science in keeping the American people in contact with their allies overseas. I At home, broadcasting in 1942 vastly increased its program serv- ices. Thousands of announcements were broadcast urging war bond purchases or telling the public about the special needs of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Corps, Red Cross, USO, the WPB, OPA and similar agencies. In addition, hun- dreds of entertainment and news (continued on page J!)) — (Official r. S. Navy Photo.) •43 TO SEE INDUSTRIAL POWER IN FULL FORCE Harboni Says Nation's Production Will Eoenttiallij OuerwUeln} the Enemy. By Lieut. Gen. James G. Harbord Chairman of the Board, Radio Corporation of America THE United Nations should look forward to 1943 as a year bright with promise in the war against the Axis. Here in the United States, after long, hard months of preparation, we are get- ting results scarcely believed pos- sible a year ago. Millions of men are being equipped and trained in modern warfare. Our industrial capacity has been geared to a speed that will eventually overwhelm the enemy with its weight and power. With all its implications for final victory, this power should come into full force during 194.3. Real fighting is ahead. Wherever RADIO OPERATOR IN NAVY P.\TR0L BLIMP ON ANTISUBMARINE SCOUTING DUTY. the battle lines are drawn, radio will be in the thick of the fight, for it is the lifeline of wartime com- munications on land, sea and in the air. The war map today reveals that .American soldiers, sailors and ma- rines are lined up at more than sixty places on the world-wide fight- ing front. To unify them in com- munications is a mighty task. With- out radio it would be a slow, almost impossible task. Every outpost, whether in jungles or on glaciers, no matter how remote, is linked to headquarters. American fighting men, almost a million of them, are focused in action by radio—the global lifeline of communications. In World War I, the center of action lay in France. From that battlefront radiated the communi- cation lines. Wireless was being given its first wartime test, but at no time did the demands upon it remotely approach those of World War II. In the intervening years, the development of the electron tube, of short waves, and of many other devices and services of radio have tremendously increased the efficiency of communications. The result has been that in 1942, radio was ready to play the vital role as- signed to it on the many far-flung fronts. These long - distance fighting fronts are bulwarked by the home front. In this war the military front and the home front are parallel. The home front is the production front and it runs through every street in the nation. Munitions and food, airplanes and tanks, rifles and radio, all move up to the front lines from the home front. Today, eighteen Americans stand behind every American fighting man. His success and the winning of this war depend upon the workers at home, for only one American in every nineteen will have a job directly in the combat forces in this war. The road ahead to winning this war is rough. Every mile toward victory must be fought for with an all-out eflFort. The rapidity of the march, the turn in the tide of bat- tle, hinge upon science and produc- tion, as well as upon direct combat with the enemy. (continued on page 25)