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A NEW series of short-wave broadcasts under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society was inaugurated on April 24 over the non-commercial short-wave radio station WRUL. The world-wide significance of American thought and achievement in the present crisis in our civilization will form the general background of the series; distinguished American authorities will deliver a series of addresses, each in his special field-scientific, sociological and cultural. The American Philosophical Society and the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation have arranged to send out this series of short-wave broadcasts over WRUL from the Society's Hall in historic Independence Square, Philadelphia. They will be directed primarily to countries overseas where the English language is spoken and understood, and where there is still interest in the progress of science and learning and faith in a democratic form of government. WRUL is planning to translate a number of these outstanding talks into other languages for many of the countries covered by its beams ; the station now broadcasts in twenty-two languages.
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Broadcasts on American Thought and Culture. Nature 149, 728 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149728c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149728c0