Word: wirephoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bound to be an exception, due to at least three issues too hot to be disposed of entirely in private. One was the NRA newspaper code which expires June 15. Another was the question of letting down the bars against radio news broadcasting. Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan...
...Wirephoto is the Associated Press's system for flashing newspictures around the country by telephone wire. It serves 39 of the AP's 1,340 member newspapers, in 24 large cities. Those 39 underwrite the $1,000,000-a-year cost of getting pictures from any distance in about ten minutes (TIME, May 7; Jan. 14). When the project, secretly negotiated, was revealed at last year's AP meeting, two delegates fumed with rage. One was John Francis Neylan, brainy, brawny counsel for William Randolph Hearst, who holds 19 AP memberships. The other was peppery little...
Fact is, Syracuse Journal published exclusively a half page picture aerial view of wrecked airplane, also a half page picture of rescue party going up the mountain, the day before the wirephoto started. . . . Journal flew a plane over this area, took photographs and hurried back to the office. The first wire picture was 24 hours late in this city...
...When an airmail letter from him was held up, the President had a copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...
Last week International and Acme were giving Wirephoto as hot a race as they could by airplane delivery, watching it with an eye to joining in a competitive wire operation if necessary. Hearst was reported to be experimenting with an invention to transmit not photographs but engraved cuts, all ready for printing...