Radio: On the Beam

Two steps toward harnessing the frisky short waves that dart day & night from U.S. transmitters were considered in Washington last week. One step was calculated to give the programs more listeners; the other would direct them to better effect-maybe.

For Unity. Since last summer all U.S. short-wavers have been shepherded by the Office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel William J. Donovan) and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Nelson Rockefeller). War put a strain on this rather informal system—a strain at first overcome by mutual hard work and good will...

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