1940 General Electric Print Ad - WGEA WGEO WGEI Schenectady GE Radio Ambassadors

WIRES WITHOUT BARBS

THESE wires are known in Rio de Janeiro, Val-paraiso, and Buenos Aires. The messages they speak cross mountains and ocean and jungle to reach rubber planters on the upper Amazon and ranchers on the pampas of Argentina. Because of these messages, citizens of more than a dozen republics to the south know the United States better how we live, what we think, how we feel. And from this better understanding comes the friendship on which the safety of the Ameri-can hemisphere must depend.

For more than 15 years Schenectady's inter-national broadcasting stations WGEA and WGEO have been interpreting the life and

culture of these United States to the people of our sister American republics. In 1939 they were joined by KGEI, a new G-E station in San Francisco. Day and night, in many languages, these three stations present free, uncensored news, entertainment, education. They act as ambassadors for peace in a world torn by war, as pioneers in the cause of hemisphere solidarity.

General Electric scientists and engineers for more than 25 years have played a leading part in the development of radio. Today, through the G-E international broadcasting stations, thev are making important contributions to the defense program of the Americas.

G-E research and engineering have saved the public from ten to one hundred dollars for every dollar they have sarned for General Electric

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