Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...route numbers are painted in black and orange figures on telegraph poles at regular and frequent intervals along the road. They are also on the sign posts...
...evening. The evening of departure and arrival was the same. The three circumnavigators who went westward were back in six seconds. The three circumnavigators who went eastward were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor-most of it being taken by the frail humans who relayed them on their way. The actual ether time for a signal to go around the World would be something less than one seventh* of a second...
...Julius Rosenwald. Because of the large trading in Sears, Roebuck shares on the New York Stock Exchange, brokerage houses, financial bigwigs evinced interest. Mr. Kittle, now 44, began his rise to fortune as a waterboy to a railroad section-gang when he was 14. At 17, he was a telegraph operator, then cashier, chief clerk, superintendent. He was general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad. During the War. he managed the Illinois Central and three additional railroads...
Radio Relays. Proposals for linking radio stations for simultaneous broadcasting of one program was considered. The technical method of so doing would be by wire, a system developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., or by short-wave radio relaying, a system which the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. is developing. A continuing committee to deal with the problems of relaying was recommended...
...Telegraph wires hummed as if war were declared. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people ram-jammed into automobiles, streetcars, subways and onto sidewalks, honking and shouting and pushing their way. The New York "Giants" and the Washington "Senators" continued their exciting argument over the baseball championship of the planet...