Word: telegraphe
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...report the situation to their members in other states. No local correspondents for the dailies can be found who have made reports, perhaps because of a rule in the book of instructions sent to local correspondents by the daily newspapers of Georgia: If a white man is murdered, telegraph it in; if a Negro is murdered, mail...
...much does the Weather Bureau spend every year for telegraph tolls...
...which he takes command was organized in 1870 as a function of the Signal Corps, transferred to the Department of Agriculture in 1891. Its first annual appropriation was $15,000. For the current fiscal year it got $3,731,235, of which about $450,000 will go for telegraph bills, most of the rest to pay some 1,000 employes. At more than 200 stations in the U. S., Canada, Alaska, the West Indies, notations are made twice daily of pressure, precipitation, wind, temperature. The results are wired in code to Washington, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans, where forecasts...
...finds the names of Wintrhop W. Aldrich, George F. Baker, Richard Whitney, and two lease moguls of the banking fraternity, together with Walter Lippmann and Walter S. Gifford. For a committee of seven members, the Overseers managed to pick one liberal columnist, one president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and five bankers...
...announced that the Federal Radio Commission had approved RCA's application to expand its domestic radio system, which has hitherto been confined to a transcontinental circuit between Manhattan and San Francisco. In Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Boston RCA will erect stations to compete directly with the telegraph companies. And between Manhattan and Philadelphia it will start the first domestic radio facsimile service in the U. S. If successful, RCA hopes to expand this type of service throughout the U. S. Such a move would put RCA in a strategic bargaining position for the huge communications merger on which...