Word: radiophoto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Facilities, New Problems. With its 27 "outposts" in 21 countries, its 2,682 radio programs a week (The Voice of America), its service of U.S. newsreels to theaters in neutral countries, its new radiophoto service to eleven points, including Moscow, Chungking and Cairo, OWI has done plenty to open up channels of communication. So has the British Ministry of Information, which even publishes a Russian-language paper in Kuibyshev...
Universal Air. Radio technology may very quickly alter this. Press Wireless, Inc. transmitted 600 photographs over its radiophoto circuits to Berne,Moscow and Chungking last January; OWI men in the field are now using portable radiophoto transmitters. The development of high-frequency transmission will mean a local broadcast band of nearer to 500,000 kilocycles than the present 15,000. The arrival of television and television
...Embarrassed his Office of War Information and, his old spelling teacher by writing Generalissimo with two l's in a longhand letter transmitted to China's Chiang Kai-shek at the opening of a new radiophoto link with Chungking. OWI hastily blotted the extra l with ink eradicator. Chinese spokesmen, with traditional politeness, took the incident more calmly. They often spelled Generalissimo with two l's when using English, they said; moreover, what was the difference after it was rendered into Chinese...