Radio sets, like other man-made contraptions, will not last forever. Last week the testimony of U.S. farmers and city folk alike showed that breakdowns were increasing among the 59,000,000 U.S. sets.
The farmer's plight was serious. In some rural areas, over a third of the radios were out of order. Most of them (3,200,000) were battery-operated, and the supply of new batteries was slim. Farmers, who depend upon the radio for most of their world news and market reports, were also being cut off from weather bulletins, the latest Government regulations, other special...
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