8” x 10.5” B&W magazine ad from the November 1, 1943 edition of Time Magazine titled, “It ought to get a war medal.”  Publication date appears on the back of ad, along with a letter from the publisher.

Ad begins:  “This little tube can’t help you smell, but it can help you talk, see and hear.  Right now, it helps direct guns, planes, ships.  It ought to get a war medal.  It has given birth to a new art called Electronics.  In 1912 in the Bell Laboratories, Dr. H.D. Arnold made the first effective high-vacuum tube for amplifying electric currents.  Vacuum tubes made possible the first transoceanic telephone talk by the Bell System in 1915.  Vacuum tubes are now used on practically all Long Distance circuits to reinforce the human voice . . . .”