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Page 35 - regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 34 - Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest...
Page 34 - Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the commission, from time to time, as public convenience, interest, or necessity requires, shall — (a) Classify radio stations; (b) Prescribe the nature of the service to be rendered by each class of licensed stations and each station within any class...
Page 14 - ... schools of public health accredited by a body or bodies recognized by the Surgeon General, of comprehensive professional training, specialized consultative services, and technical assistance in the fields of public health and in the administration of State or local public health programs...
Page 110 - Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, who provided funding for the symposium.
Page 34 - ... (c) Assign bands of frequencies to the various classes of stations, and assign frequencies for each individual station and determine the power which each station shall use and the time during which it may operate; (d) Determine the location of classes of stations or individual stations ; (e) Regulate the kind of apparatus to be used with respect to its external effects and the purity and sharpness of the emissions from each station and from the apparatus therein ; (f) Make such regulations not...
Page 34 - It is the purpose of this Act, among other things, to maintain the control of the United States over all the channels of interstate and foreign radio transmission; and to provide for the use of such channels, but not the ownership thereof, by persons for limited periods of time, under licenses granted by Federal authority, and no such license shall be construed to create any right, beyond the terms, conditions, and periods of the license.
Page 37 - Broadcasting means the dissemination of radio communications intended to be received by the public, directly or by the intermediary of relay stations.
Page 186 - The charges made for the use of any broadcasting station for any of the purposes set forth in this section shall not exceed the charges made for comparable use of such station for other purposes.
Page 194 - Nothing in this act shall be understood or construed to give the commission the power of censorship over the radio communications or signals transmitted by any radio station, and no regulation or condition shall be promulgated or fixed by the commission which shall interfere with the right of free speech by means of radio communication.

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