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Music on the Air
Bloch, Blanche | June 5, 1929 issue

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"Our inventions," said U.S. writer Henry David Thoreau of the laying of the Atlantic cable, "are but improved means to unimproved ends." If Thoreau doubted the urgent and ultimate importance of most of the news flashed over the cables, what would he have said of the radio, that latest marvel of science, which can call aid to a ship in distress, guide airplanes in Arctic wastes, or bring Presidential candidates to the homes of the nation--and which has been used mainly for the purpose of broadcasting fifty-seven varieties of twaddle upon the air? There were almost as many radio listeners as readers of the comic strips and the Sunday "funnies."

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TELECOMMUNICATION cables; TRANSATLANTIC cables; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; RADIO broadcasting; MUSIC; ATLANTIC Ocean
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