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After Benito Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans, a Times reporter in Europe raced to send proof to New York.
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After Benito Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans, a Times reporter in Europe raced to send proof to New York.
A deteriorating two-story concrete building in remote south Napa County wetlands once relayed news from Asia to the rest of the United States and tracked Soviet Sputniks. Samie Hartley A mysterious wreck of a building in remote Napa County wetlands once hummed with excitement as radio workers became the first in the western United States to pick up the latest Asian news and Soviet Sputnik beeps. This Press Wireless site was once a newsgathering powerhouse. Today, itâs a broken-down, all-but-forgotten piece of the past. âSome of us are wondering about the hist...
Real time, text communications are not the invention of email. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, long distance was expensive and fax very slow. Vulcan needed an alternate method to communicate in real time for the following reasons: The two offices needed written communications on production schedules and preparation of quotations. For example, the factory was required to send a periodic telex to inform the executive office of the status of every back order in the system. Since a third of Vulcan’s sales volume was international, it needed to communicate rapidly with its customers, both during t...