Word: telegrapher
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...public was one of almost unanimous approval. Said the London Times, traditionally first newspaper on the break fast tables of Britain's rulers: "A momentous document which should and must exercise a profound and immediate in fluence on the direction of social change in Britain." Other comments: Telegraph: "The consummation of the revolution begun by Mr. Lloyd George in 1911. . . . Perhaps the one really basic innovation ... is the establishment of a national minimum level of subsistence." Manchester Guardian: "A big and fine thing." Daily Worker: "A courageous attempt ... to alleviate some of the worst evils of present-day society...
...pilot soared home after strafing a supply train in Northern France with a chunk of a telegraph pole wedged in his wing. A sergeant pilot on patrol over the Dutch coast flew his Spitfire more than 100 miles home after it was hit by three cannon shells and 30 machine-gun bullets, with a seagull lodged in its carburetor intake. An Eagle reported: "Evading a flak, got into an uncontrolled spin, came out of it in a dive over a cluster of guns, opened fire from 200 yards, blew up an ammunition dump, pulled out of the dive, gunned army...
...City. Near the river the streets are still black, except when bombs land. In that moment the outline of the buildings is silhouetted against the sky and reminds one of a fortress. Indeed Stalingrad is a fortress. Underground we enter the staff headquarters. Telegraph girls, their faces pale from sleepless nights and explosion dust, tap out dots and dashes. Communication officers pass with quick steps. In their dispatches they do not write about the hills, valleys or heights, but about suburbs, streets and sometimes even single buildings. I try to light a match, but it is quickly smothered. Here underground...
...machines in New York, three direct wires to each printer, eight linotypes equipped to handle the tapes. There are only 100 other Teletypesetters in all the world -and only two other publications use them over any comparable distance-the Edinburgh Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald, which print their London telegraph news from tape produced in London...
...Good lived for many years in South Cameroons, West Africa as a Presbyterian missionary. Drum thumping is as familiar to him as the clack of a telegraph key. An ordinary drum, he says, can be heard three or four miles by day, ten or 15 miles at night. "I know of one exceptional drum that has been heard 25 miles, though its messages could no longer be understood...