Word: wirephotoed
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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More astonishing is a device for wire transmission of news pictures, which may be Publisher Hearst's answer to the Associated Press's Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves...
...Associated Press's $1,000,000-a-year Wirephoto system flashed a copy of the certificate to Mae West. Said she: "It has no signatures. The names were written in by the clerk. I'm sorry about that. The bride's handwriting would bear...
Resolution No. 3: Let the AP be protected against any liability arising out of ) Wirephoto. Big Jack Neylan rose on his long legs, began in an easy, booming drawl...
...going to put this old grey head right into a family quarrel. Up to now here has been an impression that all is sweet and lovely among the immortal 39 [Wirephoto users.] Well, I can tell you that's no happy family. In fact they're having a terrible time keeping ten from running out! George Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle is threatening to sue on the ground that Wirephoto was sold to him by misrepresentation. The sales talk was that his Hearst competitors were about to buy it. If he should win, and the rest...
Resolution No. 4: Let a committee of five, including at least three nonusers of Wirephoto, review the whole transaction and determine if the AP's credit and the interests of all members have been protected. Neylan: "I demand a record vote." Carl L. Estes of the Longview, Tex.) News, bitingly: ". . . I've had enough of this self-appointed, self-anointed shepherd of the little fellow. " Vote: Tabled...