Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control system used on the Utah differs somewhat from that perfected by Inventor Hammond, though the principal features are the same and the Navy is using Hammond patents. But on the Utah the use of practically standard multiplex telegraph equipment permits single signals to be distributed to various apparatus in different parts of the vessel. Thus a signal for increased speed will open throttle valves, turn electric switches, regulate the supply of oil pouring into the boilers...
...person signing the name of J. Hartigan, giving the Hibernian Hotel as his address. At the hotel no J. Hartigan was known, but a Dublin chemist reported that he had sold some strychnine eight weeks earlier to a man whose description tallied with what the telegraph clerk could remember of J. Hartigan...
They were well drilled. One party set up the guns, another rushed to the out skirts of the town and cut telephone and telegraph wires. There was no one to oppose them but a few Rural Guards. A burst of machine gun fire sent these scampering. The rest of the men worked feverishly unloading crate after crate of rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Another party of rebels was waiting in Gibara with an ancient wood-burning locomotive and three creaking freight cars. These were run down to a siding and loaded. It was a filibuster to warm the heart...
...mobilized for emergency work and to look after U. S. citizens (the New York Times counted 896 in the district, all safe, most of the women leaving for mountain resorts, the men remaining to watch their property). The Navy helped out by keeping Hankow in touch with Shanghai: Chinese telegraph lines were virtually useless. A plan was under consideration to mobilize all foreign navies in Chinese waters. Also, an international river patrol will be formed when the waters begin to subside...
...Tacomino just outside Havana, insurgents swooped down, burned the telegraph station, killed ten soldiers, kidnapped 15 more...