From Paris, Berlin, London, Rome and Moscow every week radiate into the U. S. some half a million words of news and feature talks via the short waves. Berlin's North American Service is on the air eleven hours a day with a self-advertised, "choice assortment of broadcasting viands, sparkling musical champagne and other tasty delicacies ... as well as the regular news features and commentaries." Two U. S. listening posts make it their business to hear almost the whole works.
Columbia Broadcasting System's four-man post has heard some 30,000,000 words, now puts a selection of them on a teletype circuit to...