Word: cablegrams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
...wilted and voices hoarsened for the first time in the life of the New York rubber broker. Brokers sold 20,277½ long tons in 8,111 contracts* for $13,500 in 4½ days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible for the crash. Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after...
Between the pudgy, rheumatic yet capable fingers of a great statesman a pen quivered. Aristide Briand was signing, last week, a cablegram to Frank Billings Kellogg. This was the third vital stroke in a game of diplomatic shuttlecock played since last spring between the Foreign Minister of France and the U. S. Secretary of State...
...Manhattan, the house of Morgan did not give out to the press a cablegram despatched, last week, from John Pierpont (Morgan to Benito Mussolini. When cabled back from Rome at press rates it read suavely...
Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...