Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer some of the questions subscribers all over the world have been asking about how Time gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news. Copy Boy Bill Lohden was on all-night duty at the A.P. machine when the invasion flash came. His heart went right up in his throat (as most hearts all over America did), but like every one else at TIME he had known for weeks just what his job would be at H-hour, and the bells on the A.P. printer had hardly stopped ringing before he put in the first telephone call that started editors, writers...
Make-up Editor Bob Boyd had just put the regular edition to bed. The teletypesetter circuits were still open, so Boyd was able to flash the word at once to all our printers to shift over to their D-day plan. All work stopped on the old Battlefronts form; instead the electrotypers began rushing extra plates of the other news sections. When our presses started running at the usual hour Tuesday morning, the extra plates enabled us to turn out these other sections at twice the usual rate-so that all the presses would be clear that night...
...FLASH. Late last night in an embroiled caucus the men of Company 1 decided that Roosevelt had been in long enough. They did recognize that he has given to the country a great many things, such as: SEC, HOLC, RFC, OPA, WPB and V-12; the last, his greatest contribution. But when the Naval Uniform shop can't get our whites here on time for graduation, and their grays split every time we bend over, we must have new leadership. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party...
...three hours, Radio Berlin kept it up: paratroopers landed near the Seine estuary; the harbor of Le Havre shelled; Calais and Dunkirk raided by strong bomber formations. Every new flash brought the probability nearer. But most of the U.S. slept...
...early-morning Washington, a cab driver, parked near the White House, said: "It may be D-day but it looks just like any other morning to me." Two days earlier the U.S. had received a false invasion flash from the Associated Press's London office, sent by an inexperienced girl teletype operator. Now, in Redding, Calif., a policeman echoed the sentiments of many citizens when he said: "That girl wasn't far off, was she?" Awakened by a New York Post reporter at her West Point hotel, Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower exclaimed : "The invasion? What about the invasion...