telegraph company

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telegraph
noun[U]
uk
/ˈtel.ɪ.ɡrɑːf/us
/ˈtel.ə.ɡræf/
(especially in the past) a method of sending and receiving messages by electrical or radio signals, or the special equipment used for ...
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company
noun
uk
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/us
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/
an organization that sells goods or services in order to ...
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Both thetelegraphcompanyand the military authorities dispose of these personal messages as speedily as the difficulties of the situation permit.
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An automatic telegraph machine has, however, been installed in an office building in that city to enable the tenants to send telegrams to the main office of atelegraphcompany.
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He was instrumental in stringing telegraph lines alongside railroads and had earlier purchased a fifty percent interest in atelegraphcompany.
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However, thetelegraphcompanylargely ignored the bill of grievances and continued to discharge employees for union activities.
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He later became a superintendent of atelegraphcompany.
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An 1895 directory lists two telephone companies within the city in addition to atelegraphcompany.
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Any two telegraph companies could consolidate with shareholder approval.
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Charles worked for thetelegraphcompanyas a civil engineer and mechanic.
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Morgan was an agent for atelegraphcompanyand served as postmaster.
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I am aware that the treatment of routine traffic inquiries relating to telegraph companies' traffic passing over the inland telegraph system has been modified.
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That figure of £7,134,000 has to be compared with the amount in the telegraph companies' capital that is concerned with cables.
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If you will support us on this we will see to it that you get a cheap rate, lower than the rate which you are paying the telegraph companies.
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Most other inventors of the era sought to provide point-to-point messaging, to compete with telephone and telegraph companies.
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The teleprinter became a popular technology with telegraph companies beginning in 1922.
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The private telegraph companies that already existed were bought out.
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The ranks of such companies include public utility companies like natural gas, pipeline, electricity, and water supply companies, sewer companies, telephone companies and telegraph companies.
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The news agency's founders sought to produce a more accurate and reliable alternative to the monopoly service of the telegraph companies.
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Because of the unique co-operative ownership of the company, rates were set much differently than other contemporary telegraph companies.
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Once control of the telegraph lines were turned over to the telegraph companies, the operators were discharged one by one.
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He was also associated with several telegraph companies.
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