Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broadcasting on a national scale, we will have to fall back on the land wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a basis. These wires will receive the speeches from the microphone, where it is set up, and take them to the cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right...
Apart from the National City Bank, America's billion-dollar concerns consist of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the U. S. Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil of New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroad systems...
...United States patents have been granted to American inventors for the telegraph, the telephone, the sewing machine, the vulcanization of rubber, the moving picture, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the typewriter, the automobile, the sleeping car, the electric car, the linotype machine, the vacuum cleaner, the aeroplane and the leading features that make modern radio possible...
...State of Sao Paulo, the revolt was said to be spreading and assuming serious proportions. All this was most uncertain, however, for the rebels had cut the telegraph and telephone wires, had halted the railway services, had generally made themselves unsociable...
...addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading public - "that native of Antofagasta," whose fame was made when he ordered a stove via the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s lines o'er land...