Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call from Delhi. While Desai fasted, his supporters gradually rallied. In Ahmedabad's 66 mills 120,000 workers who had kept apart from the rioting started each day with a prayer for the Chief Minister's success. In Bombay his well-wishers formed huge lines at the telegraph office. And from New Delhi Prime Minister Nehru called nightly to inquire after Desai's health...
...entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
...clock one morning last week the bulb-nosed shape of Her Majesty's Telegraph Ship Monarch, world's largest cable-laying vessel, rode slowly into Random Sound off Clarenville on the east coast of Newfoundland and began a new era in communications. After 30 years of planning, seven months of steaming, Monarch had paid out of her massive hold 4,900 miles of copper-cored, steel-armored, polyethylene-insulated 1¾-in. cable, and with the splice at Clarenville, completed the first underwater telephone cable linking America and Europe. Now, for the first time in history, voices could...
Business-wise, the 2,650-mile, $42 million cable between Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, and Oban. Scotland (financed and owned 50% by American Telephone & Telegraph, 41% by British Post Office, 9% by Canada's Overseas Telecommunications) was an absolute necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays...
...22nd underseas cable and the first phone cable (the others can handle only telegraph messages) can transmit 35 calls simultaneously over each of its two lengths, more than doubling present transatlantic phone capacity. Service will be inaugurated sometime this fall and by conservative A. T. & T. estimate should be at full capacity within two years at the standard rate of $12 per three-minute New York-London call. With no atmospherics to throw it off, the submarine phone cable is bell-clear, is expected to be working at all times. Last week grey, ramrod-straight Monarch Captain James...