Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Halethorpe, Md., have come school children, railroad presidents, Henry Ford and many miscellaneous spectators, to the number of 1,000,000, since it was opened three weeks ago. On the fairgrounds they have strolled past exhibitions of trunks, tickets, timetables, tableware from Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed and whinnied. There were many...
...undebatable necessity for uniform rules of international communications brought 400 representatives of 51 nations to Washington last week for an international radio telegraph conference. The only previous meeting of like purpose was at London in 1912, when only dots and dashes could be telegraphed without wires. Rules devised at that time still control wireless methods that have transmitted 1,000 words a minute and can transmit 2,000 a minute; that can be directed over a wave beam to specific receivers; that carry sounds and sights (wireless telephone, telephotography and, experimentally, television...
...naval supremacy. And, as it becomes less and less treasonous to believe facts, we will come to know that the English as a fighting race are only superior where they are present in overwhelming numbers with tremendous allied support or else where they are in complete control of the telegraph lines...
...death roll increased hourly, but no details of the loss of life were ascertainable, all telegraph and telephone lines, having been torn down by the deluge. Property damage, it was reported, ran into many millions of dollars...
Gong. At 10:30 of a busy morning on the New York Stock Exchange a gong clanged. All operations were suspended. Busy traders left their posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July...