Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long among laboring men that it no longer excites much comment except when it affects some industry in which the public is intimately concerned. But a strike of women exclusively is a novelty. That is what made unusually interesting the operators' strike in the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...Telephone Operators' Department of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is in a unique position. Telephone operators are trained, not born; what is more, according to the statement of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, its labor turnover is less than 16% a year. In these circumstances a strike was possible-and the telephone girls struck. They had been working eight hours a day with rest periods, reducing the actual work period to seven hours and a half. The pay ranged from $9 a week for student operators to $22 a week maximum after five-and a half...
...innumerable attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Harding set out on a 1,500 mile journey to Alaska and return. A seven car train, with a specially built car, the Superb, embodying a rear platform rostrum, and a reception room, and a communication department completely equipped for telephone, telegraph and radio communication, carried the President's party...
...high cost of cabling, the French Havas agency has decreased its news services from this side of the Atlantic. In addition, much of the German news reaching Paris has come from the Wolff Agency?German, in fact semi-officially the agency of the German Government. Moreover, the United Telegraph, a German agency with an English name, has, according to the French Senator, virtual monopoly in Central Europe where it spreads only Teutonized news. This is a very serious situation for the French, and they are prepared to spend considerable sums in disseminating their own brand of news. The idea...
...slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph and post offices...