Word: telegraphe
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...offered his services to President Obregon. The President put him at the head of 28,000 troops, already on their way to Vera Cruz. President Obregon issued a manifesto to the people calling upon them for support against the Huertista military coup. A strict censorship was imposed on telegraph, telephone, mails...
...Radio Corporation, in November 1919, took over the properties, patents and licenses of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., and subsequently entered into agreements with companies controlling practically all patents covering radio devices, which made the Radio Corporation the selling agent for these companies. Such patents are gradually running out, however; the Fleming patent on the vacuum tube expired in 1922, and such tubes are now sold ro the public by several competing firms...
...carry a letter from Chicago to New York overnight by air at a cost of 24 cents. Even if the weight is limited to one ounce, this means thousands of words for less than half the price of a 50-word night letter by Western Union or Postal Telegraph...
...floor exclusively for an entertainment. British and American amateurs then had the right of way during alternate five-minute intervals. Henry Ford broadcasted a greeting from his Dearborn (Mich.) station. The English radio waves were amplified by Eastern commercial stations and redistributed to American amateurs. The Postal Telegraph Co. cabled to England the names of all American stations which caught the British programs. The notes of a piano playing in Newcastle and faint " Hello America " signals from Bournemouth were received by several stations. An amateur in Hull, England, picked up a service from St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, broadcasted from...
Ever since the turn in the stockmarket, investment bankers have been rapidly putting out new security issues, rather with the air of making hay. The principal issues recently "floated" include the $100,000,000 American Telephone and Telegraph Co. debentures; $6,000,000 State of California gold bonds; $20,000,000 Southern Railway 6's; $5,000,000 City of Los Angeles 4¾'s; $2,156,000 City of Akron 5's and 5¼'s: $1,200,000 Mississippi Power and Light 6y2's; $5,400,000 Chicago and Alton Equipment Trust...