Word: telegrapher
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Morning after the invasion of Poland, the lead-off Woman's Page story in London's high-class big-circulation Daily Telegraph was headlined UNDERWEAR, ran as follows...
...Associated Press had no reporters in Europe, the United Press 500, International News Service 125. Among them they cabled nearly 1,000,000 words in a week. Telegraph and telephone lines were so jammed that at times messages were ten hours late. For six hours on Friday Germany was entirely cut off from the rest of the world, and at one time the U. P.'s Paris bureau had to telephone London by way of New York. Five newspapers had their own staffs abroad: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the Chicago Tribune and News, the Christian Science...
...foreign correspondents were aware of the situation (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938, et seq.) that it looked as if the only people who had not known just what was going to happen were the statesmen of England and France. Soon after Munich, Gilbert Redfern, Warsaw correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, predicted: "Within a year or so we will see a Russian-German tie-up, or Russia will retire to her fastnesses," and the New York Time's Walter Duranty wrote: "There is no reason to believe that Russia would refuse collaboration with Germany." On January 18 the Daily News...
General expenses (stationery, printing, telephone, telegraph, insurance...
Just who would profit by such a system, except for recording companies and some finely trained audience ears, is still problematical, but sure losers would be: 1) networks which would have little reason for existing; and 2) American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which collects some $6,000,000 annually from the networks for the use of 202,000 miles of wire hookups...