A bewildering sentence needed your help The sentence: The early radio people were admired as much as they were. Question: I think the sentence should be "The early radio people were admired as much as they whould be" . Thank you for helping. Full text: If you arrived at the home of almost any average American family in the evening during the 1930s, it's likely they'd be gathered around their radios. It probably would have been a console model and it would have been the most prominent piece of furniture in the living room. Family values were in. One of the era's most popular shows, One Man's Family, reached an estimated 28 million listeners (out of a total population of about 125 million) every Wednesday at 8 p. m. on the NBC network. At the beginning of the widely heard program, an announcer's voice said the show was “dedicated to the mothers and fathers of the younger generation and to their bewildering offspring.“ In the 1930s, “radio was a companion. It was something very much like a friend, and people had a warm place in their hearts for it in ways we'd find schmaltzy and a bit simple,” says Philip J. Harwood, an associate professor of communications at the University of Dayton in Ohio who specializes in the history of broadcasting. Amos ‘n’ Andy, a comedy show about two black characters—performed，incidentally, by two white guys—also was wildly popular. Almost every American knew radio singer Kate Smith's great songs, “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” and “God Bless America”. The telephone number most likely to be readily recognized by the average American was Murray Hill 8-9933, which is the number anyone could use and had appeared on that evening's program. <The early radio people were admired as much as they were> because “they knew they had to rely on words, and words alone,” Harwood says. ”Listening to them today, you realize how much they were able to make themselves into artists.”