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==Activites==
==Activites==
It ran 350 daily radio programs and had a daily cable wireless output of 100,000 words. It was the world's largest pamphlet and magazine publisher and a big movie producer, sending shorts to every country in the world. It sent out 3,500 transcribed recordings a month and turned out 50 movie shorts a year.
Among its first adventures was dropping cakes of soap from planes on the North Africans along with a picture book called "The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt," with a pin button of a picture of Roosevelt painted to make FDR look like an Arab.
Among its first adventures was dropping cakes of soap from planes on the North Africans along with a picture book called "The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt," with a pin button of a picture of Roosevelt painted to make FDR look like an Arab.
In preparation for Roosevelt’s fourth term campaign it printed a volume called "Handbook of the United States,” <ref> Phelps Adams in New York Sun, April 17, 1944. See also editorial in New York Daily News, April 19, 1944.</ref> and gave the jobs to a British firm to publish. The history covered the story from Leif Ericson's discovery up to 1932 in four and one-half pages; the remainder of the volume was devoted to Franklin Roosevelt and his [[New Deal]]. This was during the [[Presidential election of 1944]] when England was full of American soldiers able to vote.
==Congression concerns==
==Congression concerns==