Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily Telegraph: "Exceptional strength and iron will power-in short, a man who, finding a door that seemed to stick, might be expected to wrench it open. . . . lurching plane. . . . accidental plunge...
...Henry Justin Allen was three years old. But 1,000 miles or so west of Warren County, Pa., where Baby Henry was learning to talk, a young telegraph operator named Edward Rosewater was finding life unusually busy. Within a few months he became 30 years old, a father and a newspaper owner. The baby he named Victor. The newspaper he called the Omaha...
Neither choice was extraordinary. Victor was a good name for a child born in the Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city...
...with three independent, competing systems, was not so well pleased. International Tel. and Tel. merged, this spring, with the telegraph and cable companies of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. But Radio Corporation of America, restrained by federal act, cannot fuse with cable companies, cannot merge with International Tel. and Tel. or with the mighty Western Union system. Divided, competitive, U. S. cable and radio chiefs wondered how they were to battle Britain, already ahead, for first place in the world of international communications...
...Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cables...