Word: telexes
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...Military Telex. The far different visage of a Biafra slowly starving to death is part and parcel of Ojukwu's coldblooded strategy for pleading the right of Biafra's secession to the world. The second most important military installation in Biafra?after the airstrip code-named "Annabelle"?is a Telex machine that sends out news, photo captions and press releases daily...
...cable and within hours was back on station in rainy Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...
Socks & Mattresses. Telephone and telex lines to London, the world's largest gold market, were swamped as buy ers throughout Europe demanded gold, gold and more gold. More than 200 tons, or $220 million worth, changed hands on the London gold market in one day to establish a new single-day trading record. Where gold could be bought directly, mob scenes erupted and the price soared. Ten times the usual number of buyers jammed the gold pit in the cellar of the Paris Bourse, and fist fights broke out as the price on one day rose...
...three mailings a week, subscribers pay $15 a month. Steadily signing up more customers, marginal as they may be, Liberation is trying to appeal to Black Power papers and underground high school sheets as well. Eventually, it plans to convert from a mail to a wire service. Its telex machine already links Washington to New York. Detroit and Berkeley...
...fact, has been the keystone of the company ever since 1847, when Werner Siemens founded a telegraphy workshop in Berlin. "The future of this factory," said Siemens, "depends upon its own inventions." Nineteen years later, he developed the modern electric dynamo; in 1928 the Siemens company built the first telex machine and still later, the first telex network...