Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basement Trick. Top honors for speedy coverage of both conventions went to Acme, the Scripps-Howard picture service. Acme developed and transmitted pictures by wire direct from a 1,200-sq. ft. office set up in the basement of Convention Hall, at an estimated cost of $5,000. As a result, Acme moved pictures faster, and often got a better play in the press, than either of its rivals. A.P. lost time by developing and transmitting its pictures at the Philadelphia Bulletin (published by A.P. President Robert McLean), a mile and a half from Convention Hall. Hearst's I.N.P...
...weeks ago, when wily Communist General Chen Yi seized the Honan capital city of Kaifeng, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to the battlefront to direct the recapture of the city (TIME, July 5). But as Nationalist columns closed in, Chen evacuated Kaifeng and plunged southward through government territory toward the swift Yangtze River...
...excellent navigators, hitting small oceanic islands like radio-guided airplanes. But some of them seem to cross unnecessary oceans. The Arctic tern, for instance, nests in summer in North America; when winter approaches, it heads for Antarctic regions near South America. But instead of flying south, the most direct route, it heads eastward across the North Atlantic to Europe, then down the African coast and across the South Atlantic. Other birds that migrate long distances take similar detours. All this tends to vex and confuse the ornithologists, who want to know why birds behave that...
More Fax. Western Union drew a bead on 3,000 U.S. business offices: its new Desk-Fax (for facsimile) machines, now in production, will send and receive messages in a direct tie-in with the nearest Western Union central office...
...poetry belonged to an age that is. gone for good. Wrote J. Middleton Murry last spring: "A kind of disorganization seems to have overtaken poetry. 'London Bridge has fallen down.' Perhaps De la Mare was the last man to get safely across, before the first direct hit was scored upon...