Word: netcong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas again, it was picked up at Netcong, N. J., flashed back to Manhattan. One quarter-second after President Gifford said, "Hello," Vice President Miller heard him, answered over a reverse circuit. Mindful that this first round-the-world conversation should be nobly phrased, President Gifford began: "This is another step in the conquest of time and space...
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