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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On the second day, however, the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann began at Flemington, N. J. and thereafter Wirephoto had a chance to prove its worth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any of A. P.'s 1,200 members is eligible for Wirephoto, simply by sharing the cost.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not without qualms, A. P. directors have approved comic strips, features, Wirephoto and a general broadening and lightening of the old straight news formula.
From Time Magazine Archive
In June he broadcast a voluminous letter to all AP members inviting them to help him force the AP management to rid itself of Wirephoto.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was thus in a position to draw level pictorially with the rival Daily News by splitting with it the $150,000 yearly New York fee for the A. P.'s Wirephoto service.
From Time Magazine Archive
It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were messages of congratulation from home, an autographed wirephoto from his wife, his back pay, summer khaki uniforms to replace his worn clothing, good food, and the stirring atmosphere of a U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
After Brown's staff had called papers in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia in search of information, the A.P. wirephoto machines started up again.
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
The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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