Word: telegraphe
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...save the smallest newspapers, press association news is now sent by automatic telegraph-typewriters called teletype printers. At the central transmitting office an operator types the copy on a machine similar in appearance to a typewriter. Each letter sets up a characteristic electric impulse which is carried thousands of miles, over costly leased wires, to receiving machines in scores of newspaper offices. There, instantaneously and simultaneously, the impulses are re-converted into typewritten copy...
Last week the Hearst organization saw early release from heavy telegraph tolls when the Federal Radio Commission granted wavelengths to American Radio News Corp., a Hearst company newly founded for operation of automatic printers by radio. At a cost of about $50,000 each, four transmitting stations are to be built at New Rochelle, N. Y. (Manhattan suburb), San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta. Hearst-papers and other subscribers will lease their receiving machines from the Hearst radio company, will receive their news in the same form as the teletype, simply by tuning in on the regional broadcasting station...
...court blamed the newshawk for lack of diligence in verifying the rumor, which Associated Press and other agencies circulated widely. TIME'S story clearly stated Governor Moody's denial of any "don't shoot" telegram, a denial substantiated by a search of telegraph company files. TIME was accurate also in reporting Capt. Hamer's remark upon hearing the false rumor: "That means they'll get the Negro"-which they...
Consolidated Gas (of which New York Edison is a subsidiary) is the world's second largest public utility (American Telephone & Telegraph is first). Serving chiefly New York City, Consolidated supplies gas to 1,135,457 consumers and electricity to 2,335,772. Mr. Carlisle's election to its directorate was generally predicted following the death of the late Nicholas Frederic Brady (TIME, April 7).* Significance of Mr. Carlisle's appointment lay in the fact that he is the first member of the Up-State Niagara-Hudson utility group to secure a position in the Down-State Consolidated board; that through...
...foreign representative of the United States, Forbes has served ten years in the Phillippines, from 1904 until 1914, while he was governor general there during the last four years. He is a director of the American and New England Telephone and Telegraph companies, the First National Bank, and the United Fruit Company...