Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!
(By Roy Underhill)
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Along with his staff of four women (all severely injured WWI volunteers), Calvin studies "broadcast seed, nutrient and amendment distribution technology and practice" – that is, what happens when the poop actually hits the fan.
But the four women are more interested in developing the world's first supercomputer (using abandoned punch-card machines), and Calvin is more interested in woodworking ... and in one particular woman: Kathryn Dale Harper, host of the radio program "Homemaker Chats."
How best to woo her? Why, a radio show: "Grandpa Sam's Woodshop of the Air!"
It's an almost-overnight sensation (for measured drawings, write to "Grandpa Sam's" and be sure to include a 3 cent stamp to cover the cost of duplication). But – as Calvin discovers – success breeds jealousy ... a dangerous thing when one's enemy has friends in high places.
Can Calvin and his friends save the world through woodworking, one listener at a time? Perhaps – but first, they'll have to save themselves from Nazis, the clutches of the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs that break at inopportune times.”
