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...minimum amount of film. Its range is approximately one mile for every 1000 feet of altitude; that is, if the plane were flying at 27,000 feet, the negative would represent an area measuring 27 miles each way. It is in the finishing of this negative that the restitution printer is used. If a print were made directly from the negative, the finished product would give the appearance of an inclined plane. However, the negative is placed in the printer at such an angle that the final photograph, which is shaped like a Maltese cross, gives the same scale...
Looking on hawk-eyed at all this was an earnest German-born New Yorker named John Peter Zenger. Onetime apprentice to Publisher William Bradford of New York City's only newspaper, the New York Weekly Gazette, he had set himself up as a printer, though continuing to contribute occasionally to the Gazette. When William Bradford, numbed by official censorship, saw Printer Zenger's frank account of the election he threw up his hands, refused to print it. John Peter Zenger forthwith started a newspaper of his own, the New York Weekly Journal, came out next week with...
...were too strong, which could not yield to the desires of the masses." So he attacked Washington, vilified him to a fare-ye-well. Naturally Benny's enemies were legion. His rival journalist in Philadelphia, William Cobbett, expressed the settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles of Insurrection, Anarchy and Confusion, the greatest of fools, and the most stubborn sans-culotte in the United States." He was attacked on the street, denounced as a spy, his printshop windows were broken. In the summer of 1798 yellow fever...
...died. By his bedside was a friend as loyal as his own boast, the darling of his salad days and toast of the old Savoy. Peggy Primrose, now plump Mrs. Peggy Lowe. His last gesture was to refuse an allowance of ?1 a week from the bitter, hollow-cheeked printer who sent him to jail and smashed his career: Reuben Bigland...
...associate in these lotteries was the dour printer Reuben Bigland, known on British racetracks as "Telephone Jack." Telephone Jack in 1921 decided that he had not been sufficiently taken care of. He printed and circulated a pamphlet entitled "The Downfall of Horatio Bottomley." This was followed by a second number, "What Horatio Bottomley Has Done for His Country." which contained 24 blank pages. Horatio Bottomley sued for libel, lost, and inadvertently gave away the whole story of the War and Victory loan lotteries. He was tried in 1922 on the specific charge of misappropriating ?5,000. Prosecution brought out that...