Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linotype got a renewed lease on life in Chicago last week, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, announced a new typesetting process that it hopefully predicted would make the linotype as obsolete as handset body type. The machine (suggested names: Lumitype, Anti-Type, Any-Type) does away with casting of type metal, "sets type" photoelectrically on film instead...
While the initial composition on film by the new method is faster than conventional typesetting, the slowness of the photoengraving process tends to cut down the time saved. But the Graphic Arts Foundation, subsidized by 139 newspaper, magazine and book publishers, hopes to speed up photoengraving by further research. Until then, photo composition's chief value will be in offset and gravure printing...
...current issue contains a chart showing in graphic form the comparative points covered by the Taft-Hartley, Thomas, and Wood bills showing at a glance just where each bill varies. The recommendations for changes reported by the Joint Congressional Committee are listed...
Professor Conant in architecture, Deknatel in Modern art, Opdyke in European art, Rosenberg in Baroque and graphic art, and Warner in Oriental art all have wide reputations. Carpenter, who handles theory and practice, is highly praised by his students...
...next six years worked on the far-reaching and complicated business of Harvard publicity. Simultaneously, he filled such odd jobs as correspondent for the Boston Transcript until its demise in 1941, and even took pictures for the Alumni Bulletin. (Like many good reporters, Monro can juggle a Speed-Graphic with one hand and take notes with the other...