Word: oban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...
Business-wise, the 2,650-mile, $42 million cable between Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, and Oban. Scotland (financed and owned 50% by American Telephone & Telegraph, 41% by British Post Office, 9% by Canada's Overseas Telecommunications) was an absolute necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays...