Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitsui Wireless Company (of Japan) is showing marked hostility to the plans of the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States to link America and China by a $13,000,000 wireless system...
...alphabet for radio, cable and telegraph was invented by Major General George 0. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. Army. Instead of dots, dashes and spaces of varying lengths of time, used in the Morse and Universal codes, General Squier's system employs three different wave intensities of each half cycle of alternating current (uniform in time), to represent the dot, dash and space, making various combinations for each character. This brings it into line with modern progress in electrical transmission, which has been revolutionized since Morse's alphabet, the development of which has stood still...
...Peking Government ordered the forts of Woo-Sung to open fire on the naval squadron that rebelled last week. The order was, however, ignored. The Government also stated that the naval rebels established a mail and telegraph censorship...
...thus sustained forbids the use of the interstate mails, telegraph lines or other methods of communication to all grain exchanges not declared " contract markets " by the Secretary of Agriculture. To become a "contract market," a grain exchange has to agree to certain specified governmental restrictions, and in general to supervision by the Secretary of Agriculture. Already the Chicago Board of Trade has applied for designation as a " contract market...
...March 31, her floating debt amounted to 7,641 billion; the last Reichsbank statement showed a note circulation of 5,642 billion. These figures reflect the losses incurred in state owned postal service, telegraph and railway systems, as well as contributions made to the Ruhr inhabit ants...