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of rapid expansion of television, and his words of 1940 are 

 equally applicable today: 



"Sales areas for television receivers must be governed en- 

 tirely by the distribution of television transmitters. The lim- 

 ited range of television transmitters also definitely limits the 

 extent to which the entire country can be considered a tele- 

 vision market." 



The Fighting Marts "Nerve Center" 



Today many peacetime industries have ceased to function. 

 Not so the radio industry. Radios for civilian use are not 

 being built. There are no new designs in cabinets coming out 

 at the moment. But that is the only type of radio equipment 

 which is not being built. The "engine" of the radio the 

 chassis that is housed in the cabinet and all the parts which 

 go to make up the "insides" are being built in quantities 

 undreamed of before the war. 



For the nerve center of fighting equipment today is the 

 radio, and the vast amount of radio equipment used by our 

 armed forces is almost beyond comprehension. Every plane 

 that rolls off the assembly line; every tank, every jeep; every 

 battleship, cruiser, submarine, and PT boat each needs its 

 radio equipment. The foot soldier has his "walkie-talkie" and 

 the paratrooper his "jumpie-talkie." 



Even the rubber life rafts of the airplanes are now being 

 equipped with radios. Sappers use radio devices to detect the 

 presence of mines, so that fields can be cleared of those death- 

 dealing machines before they can play havoc with our advanc- 

 ing forces. There is a portable radio station which can be 

 buried on a hostile shore and left unattended. For weeks on 

 end it will faithfully transmit information about the weather, 

 to help our forces plan a surprise landing at the right time. 



