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bugs,’’ high-speed sending keys, he operators clicked out 50 words a minute, or more.

In his youth the late Dr. John Oliver LaGorce, who became President and Editor of National Geographic, was a fast and talented Morse man He worked out of the US. Capitol press galleries

Telegraph operators had to be fast typists to transcr.be incoming messages often peppered with abbreviations When a sender transmitted POTU'S. the receiver typed. "The President of the United States

An operator on a busy commercial circuit often was a line

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