Word: telegrapher
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...night last week, Teleprinter No. 2 chattered abruptly into life in the newsroom of West Deutsche Rundfunk, a radio station in Cologne. This meant fresh copy from the telegraph office, and the late-shift operator dutifully bestirred himself to see what was coming in. The message he read jolted him down to his half soles. TODAY, LATE IN AFTERNOON, announced Telex No. 2, FIRST MINISTER OF U.S.S.R. KHRUSHCHEV DIED SURPRISINGLY AT 20:19 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME OF HEPHOCAPALYTIROSISES. The message was signed TASS/ASAHI BONN-an unusual signature apparently signifying that the information had come from Tass, the Russian news agency...
Quickened Demand. So are the businessmen, even though a couple of other economic indicators-housing starts and orders for durable goods-have been declining. At the week's biggest annual meeting, where 4,411 of American Telephone and Telegraph's 2,350,000 shareholders met in a chilly Bronx armory, Chairman Frederick R. Kappel announced that A.T. & T. had installed 750,000 telephones in the first quarter and is experiencing a "quickened" demand. Kappel had better reason than most to be enjoying the business climate. To raise $1.2 billion of the $3.3 billion that it will spend this...
...point in music required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...
More important, the FCC gave this advantage to A.T. & T.'s chief rivals- RCA, Western Union International and International Telephone and Telegraph. The FCC ruled that these competitors may go into transatlantic voice communication, offer a combined telephone-teletype service. They will thus break A.T. & T.'s monopoly on transatlantic phone calls. Said an FCC aide about the fortunate three: "They're the little boys, so they deserve the breaks...
...decision came in the complicated case of Transatlantic Telephone Cable No. 4-known as "TAT 4." The first effective Atlantic cable was laid in 1866 by the famed Great Eastern and still carries telegraph messages. Since 1956, A.T. & T. has laid three TATs that accommodate both printed and voice messages (previously, transatlantic calls were made by radiophone). A.T. & T. shares ownership of these cables variously with Canada, France, Britain and Germany. Each of the existing lines has as many as 84 channels, and A.T. & T. leases some of them to the U.S. telegraph and teletype companies...