Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have closeted mysterious goings-on. Last March the result of this secret business first showed in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. Last month it appeared in Hearst's Detroit Times. Last week it landed in the Detroit Free Press. The secret: sharp "stop-action" strip pictures of fast-moving objects. Each newspaper was working with its own camera invention, was still secretive about details. But enough facts had leaked out to indicate that a new action-picture vogue was about to spread through the U. S. Press...
Detroit Times's camera chief is a squat, red-thatched pugnacious Hearstling named Jimmy Northmore. For 20 of his 42 years he has worked for Hearst, boasts that the opposition has never beaten him. Twelve years ago, he says, he had the idea for a fast working camera but did nothing about it until he saw the Tribune's strips. Then he buttonholed the Times's Editor-in-Chief Albert E. Dale, offered to produce a camera that would match the Tribune's pictures for some $900. He closeted himself in his laboratory for three weeks...
Detroit Free Press made its fast-camera debut last week, also with strips of runners and jumpers at last fortnight's Western Conference Track Meet at Ann Arbor, Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
Year ago TWA inaugurated overnight passenger service between New York and Los Angeles with its fast Douglases. Last week its great rival, United Air Lines, having completed a $1,000,000 program to speed up its Boeings with new geared engines and variable-pitch propellers, inaugurated overnight schedules between New York and nine major West Coast Cities. Typical schedule: leave Newark, 4:25 p. m.; arrive Portland...
...were over "loss leaders"-popular items sold at a loss to pull in customers, a practice outlawed by the codes. Loss leader price wars are merely cheap advertising for big chain and department stores but they are often disastrous for small independent grocers, druggists or tobacconists, who count on fast-selling brands for a large part of their profits. And the little fellows, who objected so strenuously to NRA wages & hours, were last week howling to the White House about "predatory price-cutting" and "cutthroat competition...