Word: interconnections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Room, both 16-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week operations. On a busy day, the switchboard and its 23 telephone operators−all, it seems, experts at tracking down staffers or newsworthy figures anywhere in the world− handle 25,000 calls. In the Wire Room, Teletype circuits interconnect all our U.S. and Canadian news bureaus, and a radio Teletype service gives instant contact with London, Paris, Bonn, The Hague, Rome and, soon, Tokyo. The Teletype systems add up to the most extensive private network in the magazine publishing field. "Its main feature is the speed with which...
Power Pattern. To both sides it made such good sense that they agreed to interconnect the systems at 19 different points. Each would help the other at periods of peak loads, thus lessening breakdowns and power shortages. The cooperatives would abandon plans for 292 miles of lines, use the $3,000,000 saved to increase capacity of the new plant at Ford. With peace in sight, the Government released the remaining $13,299,000 of its loan to the cooperatives so that they could further expand the Ford plant and complete their transmission system...