Word: telegrapher
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...grass, Pilot Marsh took aboard some 50 of the wounded survivors, ordered his engineer to get up a head of steam, drove his vessel from the mouth of the Big Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians June 25. . . . He [and] every officer and man in five companies were killed...
...press table in Seattle filed a thumping 1,500 to 2,500 words a night to New York, and got no squawks from his employer. He was greying, 41-year-old William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late U.S. Ambassador to Germany. His employer: Tass, short for Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union...
News by Air. Tass's ancestral predecessor was the Czarist Russian Telegraph Agency, which worked hand-in-glove with the tight world news cartel promoted by England's Julius Reuter. In early Bolshevik days it was revived as Rosta; Tass, born in 1925, took over Rosta ten years later...
...observer they could not sign their names before 10 in the morning or remember them after 6 in the evening), and conducted brisk export in rubber, timber, tobacco, birds' nests, camphor, and turtle eggs. They introduced certain sublimations of the head-hunting urge-tariffs, taxes, railroads, the telegraph and the telephone...
Like many another employer whose labor costs have gone up, Western Union Telegraph Co. sought relief in higher prices (TIME, April 1). Last week the Federal Communications Commission gave Western Union what it wanted: a 10% overall rate increase, and the elimination of special cheap message services. The increase, said FCC, was an "emergency measure" for one year to keep Western Union from operating at a deficit of $1,000,000 a month, caused chiefly by a 21% increase in wages. Despite the emergency, FCC refused to let Western Union do away with the 20% discount it now gives...