Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Finley Breese Morse, famed painter, first got the idea of transmitting "intelligence by electricity." In 1837 Telegrapher Morse sent his first test message ("Attention, the Universe, by kingdoms right wheel") from one side of Manhattan's Washington Square to the other. Six years later Congress voted him $30,000 for telegraphic experiments. The next year his first long-distance message ("What hath God wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously...
...Telegraph Same as telephone...
...Samuel Morse's first message by telegraph: "Attention, the Universe, by kingdoms right wheel...
...knows, air travel throughput the land is but little more expensive (in some cases less) than train-plus-Pullman fare. But few realize that airline tickets can be obtained as easily as any other transportation tickets. All large transport companies have coast-to-coast arrangements with hotels, travel agencies, telegraph companies where schedules can be obtained, tickets purchased. American Airways has more than 9,000 such outlets...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...