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Therefore, radio equipment though it is not being supplied 

 for civilian use is being built for the Signal Corps, more than 

 three times as much of it every month as was ever built in 

 peacetimes! 



Indestructible Radios for the Armed Forces 



Not only is it being built in these tremendous quantities, 

 but it is being built with a durability never demanded in 

 peacetime equipment. 



The motto of the Signal Corps is "Get the message 

 through!" Today our soldiers must get the message through 

 with radio equipment and do it under conditions which 

 would put a peacetime radio out of commission in ten min- 

 utes. 



Suppose you dropped your radio into the bathtub on 

 Thursday, left it there overnight, put it in the oven Friday 

 morning and baked it, put it in the electric refrigerator on 

 Saturday and turned the cold controls on so high that every- 

 thing in the icebox became a brittle stick. And then, on Sun- 

 day, suppose you took your radio for a ride in a jeep, and 

 dashed madly through a town where "block busters" were 

 exploding with force enough to shatter windows a mile away. 

 As you jounced and jolted through the town, over shell holes 

 that had been streets, would you expect to tune in your 

 favorite symphony? Would you demand that every note be 

 clear as a bell? 



But the Signal Corps must get the message through under 

 conditions such as these. On battleships, when the "kick" of 

 the huge guns is sufficient to shove the vessel sideways through 

 the water as you'd shove a cake of soap in a washbowl, radio 

 equipment of precision and delicacy must function all day 

 and all night and the next day too. And it must not fail. 



On smaller craft, hurtling through the seas with mountains 



