Calvin Cobb. Radio Worker

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Lost Arts Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 353 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Roy Underhill of PBSs The Woodwrights Shop has written what could be the worlds first-ever woodworking novel: Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker! Its a screwball comedy set in 1937 about a woodworker who heads the U.S. governments agricultural Broadcast Research division. 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 worlds 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 Sams Woodshop of the Air! Its an almost-overnight sensation (for measured drawings, write to Grandpa Sams 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 ones enemy has friends in high places. Can Calvin and his friends save the world through woodworking, one listener at a time Perhaps -- but first, theyll have to save themselves from Nazis, the clutches of the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs that break at inopportune times

ISBN: 9780990623021