May 7, 1953 – Radio Corporation Chairman David Sarnoff made an unusual prediction this week. He said the electronic industry’s $8,000,000,000 volume of the past seven years will be a drop in the bucket of what’s ahead for the next seven years. He said that half of this will be in products and services that don’t exist today. And he based the prediction on the use of “that tiny thing called the electron.”
Saturday South Sound Radio, December 1953
Monday on 91.7 KTOY (LH Bates Technical College)
9:00 a.m.—Coffee Time
9:15—World News
9:30—Sons of the Pioneers
9:45—Sports News
10:00—Music by Roth
10:30—Date in Hollywood
10:45—Public Health Service
11:00—Christmas Shopping Catalog
11:15—Church in Wildwood
11:30—Luncheon Date
12:00 m.—Guest Star
12:15 p.m.—Sammy Kaye Show
12:30—World News
12:45—Master Works From France
1:15—FM Swing Show
1:30—Man Behind the Melody
2:00—Hank Snow and Rainbow Ranch Boys
2:15—Sports News
2:30—Christmas Cards and Carols
3:00—Sign Off
Scoffs at Odds, It Was Planned
PORTLAND — The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Owens were born in different years, but each has the same birthday—Dec. 16.
Becky Lynn was born four years ago, Gregory Craig three years ago and Bradley Thomas Wednesday.
A mathematics professor here figured the odds for this occurrence at 1 to 18,251,825.
Mrs. Owens scoffed when she heard the odds.“It was planned that way,” she said.
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