Word: radiophoto
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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...
...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...
...drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography, the radiophoto device was developed by Westinghouse Electric...