Word: telex
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...Vienna one day last week a Telex machine, ominously silent for almost a week, suddenly sprang to life. Slowly and with much stuttering an unknown keyboard operator in Budapest hammered out the following message...
Communications were sped up and some hard production problems were licked in 1952. New direct radio-teletype circuits, called Telex, were installed between New York City and London, New York and Paris, and London and Paris. TIME's pre-convention issue, for which the final writing and editing was finished on Monday night, went on sale in Chicago on Tuesday morning, in time for delegates to pick up copies which described what they had done the evening before...