Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo, after a six-weeks survey of 17 European countries, Herbert Hoover went to a microphone to broadcast to his fellow countrymen...
Hogan facsimile recorders can be plugged into any FM radio. They can also be used on standard sets, with slower reception. The transmission is similar to wirephoto. Copy for broadcast is fastened to a revolving cylinder. An electric eye records the varying lightwaves reflected by the different shades of black, converts them into sound signals for broadcasting. Tuned to the proper frequency, receiving sets pick up these signals, reconvert them to electrical impulses which bombard a roll of paper. The result: the chemically treated paper develops an impression much as a photoprint reacts from light waves. Fine type, action pictures...
...demonstrated his new facsimile newspaper transmitter and receiver. Plugged to an FM radio, his recorder rolled out a 9½-by-12-inch newspaper like a paper towel, 500 words a minute, 16 pages an hour. No linotype, press or delivery boy was needed; everything on the pages was broadcast free. It came in clear as an advertiser's tear sheet...
...worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
...unpalatable. Publisher John S. Knight (Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald, etc.) called it "a hazard to free reporting," a long step toward a U.S. or U.N. dominated press. Said U.P. President Hugh Baillie (whose outfit, along with A.P., the report roundly rapped for refusing to Jet the State" Department broadcast their news abroad in peacetime): "I cannot think of a speedier way for the press to get under the Government's thumb...