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Said a spokesman at the General Postoffice: "Such advertising by telegraph involved no extravagance as we are able to send telegrams for nothing...
...abbreviations which some day may be as familiar as nautical signals. The U. S. public hears little about them because all domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...
...radio telegraph-equipped airlines use the International Morse Code, with special aeronautical signals, among them: QAA-When do you expect to arrive? QAE-Have you news of (certain air-craft)? QAJ-Must I look for another aircraft in my neighborhood? QAL-I shall land at - QAO-Give me latest information concerning upper wind...
Britain's long, lean Labor worm turned decisively last week. Over their kippers, toast and China tea bloated stockbrokers and belted earls read in their Tory Daily Telegraph this horrid news: "In three days organized British Labor has undergone a swift, violent transition from nonrevolutionary to revolutionary policy...
...Lynn, Mass., when Florist Alexander Kowera fell asleep for a moment while driving his car, the car ran into a hydrant and knocked down a telegraph pole carrying high tension wires. Water from the broken hydrant flooded the street, street lights in the manufacturing district went out, a drawbridge operated electrically was disabled, Kowera's automobile caught on fire. Alexander Kowera. burned, was fined $25 for reckless driving...