In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

Trout remained on radio but also did in-depth news features for the TV network including field reports for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Trout told and played for the NPR listeners what actually happened on CBS Radio at that moment. ) He was the man who used the on-air label "fireside chat" to regular radio broadcasts of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression and World War II.

He became known to some as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his ability to ad lib while on the air as well as his stamina composure and elocution. Robert "Bob" Trout (October 15 1909 - November 14 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter best known for his radio work before and during World War II.