Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week munitions were landed at Canton. An Exchange Telegraph despatch said that the new Government "has enough on hand to fight for six months." Contracts have been secured, according to this despatch, by enterprising German and Japanese firms to supply the Canton Government with $1,000,000 worth of munitions. Up to last week President Chiang had talked much at Nanking of sending soldiers by land and warships by sea to crush the "Cantonese rebels" but he had done little. The new Canton Government was getting a good start, may yet have to be recognized by the Washington "friend...
Telephonic Television is still the most satisfactory means of transmitting an image. In the U. S. there is one telephone television circuit in regular operation. One end of it is in American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s offices at No. 195 Broadway, the other in the Bell Telephone Laboratories at No. 463 West St., Manhattan. Anyone trying it out goes into a small pitch dark booth and waits until the image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried...
...signatures are already sent by telegraph at small cost...
This unimportant story has, for the most part, unimportant music. But as a radio experiment Malpopita proved singularly interesting. Speech and such external sounds as the sharp clicking of a Morse telegraph ticker described the action so vividly that no explanation of the story was needed. The performance was conducted, characteristically, by Erich Kleiber of the Berlin Staatsoper. This pleasant bald-headed gentleman (who, at the New York Philharmonic, is overshadowed by the severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years...
...most prominent annual splurges of advertisers is Mothers' Day, celebrated by them yesterday. With a skillfully planned campaign of publicity telegraph companies, florists, and confectioners have succeeded in establishing another significant season for the use of their facilities by the thoroughly gullible public...