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U. S. DEFENSE
fills its task in preserving Democracy as we know it in the United States of America
The portable microphone and transmitter pictcs up the rat-a-tat-tat of the deadly U. S. Army improved machine gun.
The mobile unit of the National Broadcastina Co.npany, manned by two announcers and two engineers, are touring the United States to bring listeners a series of broadcasts from the thirteen training camps of the country's first peace-time conscription army. Having already seen service in covering sports, disasters, parades and political events, the mobile unit sets out in behalf of national defense. The unit Includes a studio, a power plant and four separate transmitters mounted in a specially built five-ton car with a speed capacity of 70 miles an hour.
Mrs. Roosevelt on youth problems in a democracy. Weeks to come will feature such noted naturalized citizens as Morlene Dietrich. Dr. Walter Damrosch,
RADIO VARIETIES — JANUARY
Paul Muni, Leopold Stokowski and many others. ("I'm An American" is heard Sundays at 1:00 p.m., EST, over the NBC-Blue Network.)
To bring home to listeners the importance of aviation in our national life, there's a weekly series called "Wings Over America." NBC has obtained the cooperation of James R. Ray, long a prominent figiire in aviation, to insure the authenticity and completeness of the scripts, which are the combined work of Ray and Richard McDonagh of the NBC Script Division. Each of the weekly programs consists of a dramatization that brings to life an achievement or episode of historical importance and a discussion by guest speakers acknowledged as experts in some particular branch of aviation. ("Wings Over America" is heard Sundays at 11:30 A.M. CST, over the NBCRed Network.)
"You're in the Army Now" is a new weekly NBC series dealing with life in the newly drafted forces. This is a dramatic program, aimed to interest all American families. These comic but plausible stories of the army camps are written by Wyllis Cooper, a World War Veteran and Captain in the U. S. Reserve. Cooper's successful career in radio includes the origination and writing for two and a half years of the famous "Lights Out" series. ("You're In The Army Now" is broadcast Mondays at 8:00 p.m., CST, over the NBC-Blue Network.)
The National Farm and Home Hour, produced in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, is devoting a current series of weekly shows to the relationship of agriculture to the nation's defense. The contributions agriculture can make and is now making is being told by farm men and women, boys and girls, as well as officers of the Federal agricultural services who are now actively engaged in carrying on the agricultural phases of the defense program. (The National Farm and Home Hour is heard Mondays through Saturdays at 11:30 A.M., CST, over the NBC Blue Network.
The Army Recruiting Services assisted in the broadcasting of a series designed to stimulate recruiting, while another NBC defense series, "This, Our America," described the nation's resources and the part they will ploy in the present defense program.
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