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...years ago, in Manhattan, an ex-United Press correspondent, Herbert Samuel Moore, saw big things ahead for news broadcast by radio. Moore raised $150,000, signed up some 125 radio clients for news by teletype and short wave, started Transradio Press Service...
...Nowadays Transradio Press serves some 175 U. S. radio stations and 50-odd U. S. newspapers. It also has 35 Canadian broadcasting outlets. Fortnight ago, in Ottawa's House of Commons, Transport Minister Clarence Howe announced that Canadian Broadcasting Corp. had canceled the licenses of two foreign-owned news agencies : Transradio Press and British United Press (a U. P. subsidiary). Speaking of Transradio only he said...
Publisher Milton got his composing-room machinery from the International Typographical Union, shipped it from an abandoned plant in New York. He bought a secondhand press that once belonged to a paper in Worcester. Mass. For news service he relied on the Chicago Daily News syndicate and Transradio Press...
...Transradio, the press association of the air, is directed by ex-U. P. Man Herbert Samuel Moore from offices aptly located in a lofty Manhattan penthouse. There a staff of 40 work in three shifts, putting in terse, readable paragraphs the input of some 7,500 correspondents located all over the world. The result, 50,000 words a day, goes out by teletype to some 250 radio stations from Manila to Mozambique, to 40-odd newspapers from Alaska to London, and over short-wave to ships at sea, including J. P. Morgan's Corsair whenever she puts out. Acclaimed...
Confidentially Yours, Transradio's new Saturday supplement, was tried out for some six months in Manhattan before its network debut. Its material is gathered and sent in (sometimes in code) mainly by a special corps of nonprofessionals whose identity Transradio protects like secret agents'. Paid by the story, anywhere from $5 to $100, they number about 100, are said to be located in all U. S. State capitals, in 20 foreign capitals, in other likely listening posts. Three Confidentially Yours contributors are supposed to be former U. S. Cabinet mem bers, another a German officer...