Telegram!
Subtitle: Modern History as Told Through More than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: November 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780805071016
Subjects: History: World; United States - 20th Century; Sources; History Of Technology; Telegraph Engineering; Telegraph; Technology; History - General History; History - U.S; Modern - 20th Century; Letters; History, Modern; United States - 19th Century; History / Modern / General; General; 19th century; 20th century; History
First sentence: CONCISE. COMPRESSED. CONDENSED. This was the character of most telegrams, but there were occasions when these qualities were taken to an extreme, and the fact that you could send first up to ten, then fifteen, words for the same price as one was totally ignored.