Word: photos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years Editor Howey helped start the New York Mirror (TIME, Nov. 26), put the tabloid Boston Record firmly on its feet, upping circulation from 197,000 to 320,000, made a great deal of money in the stockmarket, took charge of Hearst's International News Photo Service. In the picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories...
...special Remington portables with extra-large letters. Editors then pasted stories and headlines upon heavy cardboards the size of a newspaper page. Staff cartoonists inked in column-rules, dashes, decorations. Clippings from back numbers were pasted into place for the mastheads, weather reports, departmental headlines, etc. The whole was photo-engraved, cylinder plates cast, sent to press...
...together an eight-page printed edition of the Republican, but not until four strikebreakers and one striker were mauled, linotype machines battered by vandals and advertisement forms destroyed. A truckload of rotogravure sections from New York was hijacked, burned. Next day all four papers reverted to the typewriter and photo-engraving plant for most of their pages...
...largest land-plane, it weighed 42 tons, carried 63 persons, had eight engines, 7,000 h. p., a speed of 150 m. p. h. It cost 5,000,000 rubles (currently $4,350,000) furnished by popular subscription, took two years to build, contained a complete photographic studio, photo-engraving plant, electrically-driven rotary printing press (capacity: 8,000 newspapers per hour), broadcasting studio, sound cinema equipment, café-lounge, electric power plant, 16 telephones, observation saloon, business office, sleeping quarters, powerful loudspeaker system. Its chief use: propaganda...
...past, and at no greater cost than in pre-Wirephoto days. Boldly Publisher Macy pounced on a sore toe by reviewing the AP's momentous blunders on the Hauptmann verdict, the Gold Clause decision and the Weirton case "while the executives' attention was diverted to Wire-photo." His main point for the resolution: His papers were required to pay 50% more for an expedited mat-service to keep from being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading his own territory with Wirephotos. Moreover, said he, the Wirephoto machines were bought with money ($432,000) that belonged to the whole...