Word: telegrapher
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...Soviet government, explained Chief Engineer George Herrick, needs some wave bands for its own purposes; it cannot well afford to jam all the frequencies all the time. Its need for air room is accentuated by the fact that Russia has few long-distance telegraph or telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent...
...communication between Stoughton Hall and the outside world was virtually out off recently when the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company removed two pay phones from the Yard dormitory...
...chief reason for these chipper tidings from the 99-year-old company was a sweeping mechanization program, which has been pushed close to completion by lean, indefatigable President Walter Peter Marshall. Onetime executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, Inc., 49-year-old Walter Marshall went over to Western Union when the two companies were merged in 1943, stepped into the top executive job when President Joseph L. Egan died in December 1948. The company had already started mechanizing but it was Marshall who pushed through an $80 million appropriation to do it fast...
...repeal the stiff 25% excise tax on telegrams. He also thinks that Western Union should have a monopoly on U.S. commercial record communications (i.e., written electronic messages such as telegrams, teletype, etc.). To this end, he is campaigning for Government permission to let Western Union purchase American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s teletype lines, as well as the $46 million-a-year transoceanic cable business of American Cable & Radio Corp., RCA Communications, Inc. and about a dozen other companies...
...also want to be the U.S. "chosen instrument" for worldwide cable communications. They argue that Western Union should get rid of its cable business, which was a condition to the Postal Telegraph merger. Western Union contends that it needs the overseas revenue, plus a clear field in the U.S. telegram business, before it can be sure of a profitable living in competition with its remaining rivals, the airmail letter and the telephone...