Word: telegraphe
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...press messages through to London took one to four hours at first, later as much as 48 hours. Correspondents were limited to 200 words a day; the rate was boosted from 26? a word to 68?. Should the wireless station be destroyed by Italian bombers, correspondents can use the telegraph line which follows the country's only railroad into French Somaliland. Should both wireless and telegraph be destroyed, dispatches can be sent by runners to Gallabat, in the Sudan, or by chartered plane to the British cable station at Khartoum, 500 mi. from Addis Ababa...
Before the telegraph was perfected, the pigeon post enjoyed a great vogue among stockbrokers. It was used by news agencies to report yacht races before the invention of wireless. Its military use is today largely confined to fortress warfare, large flocks being maintained at the inland strongholds of Germany, France, Russia. Of late in the U. S., the military importance of pigeons has been recognized because of the ease with which telegraph and wireless facilities can be interrupted in modern warfare...
...bright promise of solving the distance problem, however, appeared when American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s experimental laboratories produced the coaxial cable. This consists essentially of two hollow copper tubes with a slender copper wire running through the centre of each, the whole insulated and sheathed in a lead case. Developed primarily as a telephone improvement (it transmits 240 messages simultaneously), it can also handle a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide, is able thus to transmit the fluctuating lights & shadows of television. With this cable it would be possible to "pipe" a televised program all over...
...abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book agent, hobo, telegraph lineman, miner, carpenter, banker. In 1913 he swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed more whiskey hilarity, exhaled more whiskey halitosis, suffered more whiskey headaches or caused more whiskey heartaches and tears.) For a while he sold real estate...
...Issued this week by the Harrisburg, Pa. Telegraph and Telegraph Press was a book which was to have been Candidate Long's big campaign publication. My First Days in the White House. Modeled after Upton Sinclair's I, Governor of California, but wittier, the book presents an imaginative narrative beginning with Huey Long's election to the Presidency, concludes with his setting up his Cabinet, among whom were: Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; Secretary of State, William F. Borah; Secretary of War, Smedley D. Butler; Secretary of the Treasury, James Couzens; Attorney General, Frank...