Telegraph boys in Loudon, of whom there are 17,000, walk twelve miles a day, or cycle twenty a day, in the course of their forty-eight hours of duty each week. Candidates for the post of announcer in one American broadcasting company had to pass a test, one phrase of which is ‘‘The seething sea ceascth, and thus the seething sea. sufticeth us.” Only ten of the 2,500 tested in the last two years received appointments.
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Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 4
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75Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 4
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