Wirephoto
Wirephoto
American
[wahyuhr-foh-toh]
/ ˈwaɪərˌfoʊ toʊ /
Trademark.
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Wirephotos
plural
verb (used with object)
Wirephotoed,
Wirephotoing
wirephoto
British
/ ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ /
noun
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, having scooped their competitors with shots of the Rogers-Post crash, Minneapolis labor riots, the Florida hurricane, the S. S. Dixie's, grounding and lesser events, Wirephoto subscribers are well satisfied with their experiment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both Publisher Hearst, with his 15 A. P. memberships, and Publisher Roy Wilson Howard with his six, strenuously fought against the Wirephoto project when it was introduced at last year's A. P. meeting.
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Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan.
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His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists.
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After Brown's staff had called papers in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia in search of information, the A.P. wirephoto machines started up again.
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Noting that they were suspiciously similar to ordinary wirephoto transmissions, the men at Jodrell Bank fed them into an ordinary facsimile machine hurriedly borrowed from London's Daily Express.
From Time Magazine Archive
These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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