Love the detailed craftsmanship of that little wooden box on the table.

The upright rack reminds me of early movie theatre sound system racks made by Western Electric. Those had huge valves on the front.

This candlestick phone has a dial -- the ones in the other same-day pics don't. Who did you have to be to rate a dialable phone?

Only three more years before it can all be thrown out the window onto the Victory parade!

Note the great circle map, showing the direction of the shortest path from NYC to the rest of the world.

Create your own at https://ns6t.net/azimuth/azimuth.html

Walt Duranty here --

The stereographic projection map was critical to radio stations, as their broadcast antenna patterns could be directly matched to listeners' compass directions.

Most shortwave radios have a band select switch. These appear to have plug-in units labeled A through D. And the tuning looks like it's done by reading the graphs placed in the front of the module to convert between the tuning knob setting and the station frequency.

You can bet Mr. Operator got fed up with telling people "I take two days off and you people steal my chair yet again! You have chairs! This MY chair! It's set to MY perfect height, it swivels, it's easy on my back and my boss said it's for MEEEE! (stomps down the hall with chair in tow). Dang temps, do I have to write my name in marker ? Actually I just might!" Some things at work never change.