Word: cablese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"In international communication the U. S. ought to be supreme." So said Electric Tycoon Owen D. Young last week. At the same time came news of a British merger, to control more than half of all the miles of cables in the world. But also last week, a great U...
Both these systems send telegrams in the U. S. Both send cables overseas, this being an especially large part of the Mackay business. But, as not everyone knows, the only U. S. communication company owning extensive telephone and telegraph wires in foreign countries as well as extensive cables between many...
A radio antenna sprouts from one of the squat mud turrets of Ibn Saud's mud-walled Palace, at Riyadh, his Capital. Unfortunately, however, even such modern equipment could not enable the Sultan to know, last week, what the cables of the world press were flashing about his reputed...
Died. Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, 65, son of the late John Wanamaker, urbane president of the John Wanamaker Stores, patron of art, aviation, exploration, director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000...
...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...