{"language": "en", "segments": [{"text": " [...]", "start": 0.0, "stop": 17.74, "id": 0}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 22.08, "stop": 23.1, "id": 1}, {"text": " Even before the familiar telegraph key came this first Morse instrument whose", "start": 52.38, "stop": 58.0, "id": 2}, {"text": " spark set fire to the world of communication.", "start": 58.0, "stop": 60.68, "id": 3}, {"text": " Sure, Western Union was boots and saddles, the golden spike in the railroad ties,", "start": 63.02, "stop": 68.28, "id": 4}, {"text": " singing wires and the growing veins of a great nation.", "start": 68.7, "stop": 72.42, "id": 5}, {"text": " But everybody knows that commerce turned Union did a job.", "start": 73.18, "stop": 75.98, "id": 6}, {"text": " The telegraph wire tied the cattle markets of Kansas to the tables of the East.", "start": 76.34, "stop": 81.06, "id": 7}, {"text": " Hitch the cotton mills of New England to the Southern plantations", "start": 82.7, "stop": 85.64, "id": 8}, {"text": " and the New York cutting tables.", "start": 85.64, "stop": 87.72, "id": 9}, {"text": " Other methods of communication were slow and tedious.", "start": 88.64, "stop": 91.56, "id": 10}, {"text": " The telegraph was the only means of rapid communication.", "start": 92.6, "stop": 96.16, "id": 11}, {"text": " It was direct, it was fast, it kept pace with the nation's expanding frontiers.", "start": 96.66, "stop": 101.68, "id": 12}, {"text": " All late, what do you read?", "start": 109.88, "stop": 111.68, "id": 13}, {"text": " What do you read?", "start": 112.16, "stop": 112.74, "id": 14}, {"text": " All late, they're all late.", "start": 113.22, "stop": 114.82, "id": 15}, {"text": " What do you read?", "start": 115.44, "stop": 116.0, "id": 16}, {"text": " What's your paper, mister?", "start": 117.4, "stop": 118.58, "id": 17}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 119.0, "stop": 119.18, "id": 18}, {"text": " Here you are.", "start": 120.22, "stop": 120.76, "id": 19}, {"text": " Hey, what's this, Joe?", "start": 122.36, "stop": 123.68, "id": 20}, {"text": " What's what?", "start": 123.92, "stop": 124.36, "id": 21}, {"text": " Bank pages, where's the news?", "start": 126.14, "stop": 127.84, "id": 22}, {"text": " Huh, what do you know?", "start": 129.32, "stop": 130.8, "id": 23}, {"text": " They're all blank.", "start": 131.48, "stop": 132.34, "id": 24}, {"text": " Sorry, Joe.", "start": 133.06, "stop": 133.94, "id": 25}, {"text": " Sorry, Joe's customer.", "start": 134.32, "stop": 135.72, "id": 26}, {"text": " It wouldn't have happened if we hadn't arranged it.", "start": 136.56, "stop": 138.86, "id": 27}, {"text": " There's plenty of news today, but it's still in the making.", "start": 139.54, "stop": 142.78, "id": 28}, {"text": " All right, madam, we'll send that out right away.", "start": 146.58, "stop": 148.56, "id": 29}, {"text": " I don't mean to be personal, sir, but congratulations.", "start": 151.22, "stop": 158.04, "id": 30}, {"text": " Oh, thanks.", "start": 158.46, 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220.2, "stop": 225.3, "id": 51}, {"text": " right to his desk.", "start": 225.3, "stop": 227.0, "id": 52}, {"text": " He places his reply on a cylinder, and with the push of a button, the reply goes", "start": 245.08, "stop": 250.2, "id": 53}, {"text": " direct to Western Union in his own handwriting, an ultra-modern telegraph method", "start": 250.2, "stop": 255.54, "id": 54}, {"text": " that is close to magic.", "start": 255.54, "stop": 257.26, "id": 55}, {"text": " Fifty stories down, Western Union serves another man whose job demands", "start": 258.48, "stop": 262.28, "id": 56}, {"text": " fast and accurate communication.", "start": 262.28, "stop": 263.9, "id": 57}, {"text": " Hello, Western Union.", "start": 265.02, "stop": 266.34, "id": 58}, {"text": " I'd like to send a telegram.", "start": 267.2, "stop": 268.0, "id": 59}, {"text": " Mr. J.L. Roberts, Tompkins Structural Steel Company, Templeton, Ohio.", "start": 270.12, "stop": 276.64, "id": 60}, {"text": " Construction here ahead of schedule.", "start": 278.94, "stop": 280.94, "id": 61}, {"text": " Urgent you wire immediately.", "start": 282.76, "stop": 284.1, "id": 62}, {"text": " Earliest arrival, structural steel.", "start": 286.0, "stop": 288.36, "id": 63}, {"text": " While urgent words speed from an engineer to his home office, a steady flow of", "start": 289.82, "stop": 294.78, "id": 64}, {"text": " words flashes to Western Union from the communications", "start": 294.78, "stop": 297.24, "id": 65}, {"text": " room of a large business firm.", "start": 297.24, "stop": 298.84, "id": 66}, {"text": " A battery of teleprinters handles swiftly the mass of urgent detail behind the", "start": 299.64, "stop": 304.54, "id": 67}, {"text": " daily operations of a major business.", "start": 304.54, "stop": 306.3, "id": 68}, {"text": " To save time, to pack more hours into the 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good luck.", "start": 365.06, "stop": 366.66, "id": 90}, {"text": " Thanks.", "start": 366.82, "stop": 367.24, "id": 91}, {"text": " Okay.", "start": 368.36, "stop": 368.82, "id": 92}, {"text": " Let's send it.", "start": 369.14, "stop": 369.68, "id": 93}, {"text": " It's a typical day at Western Union.", "start": 370.1, "stop": 372.02, "id": 94}, {"text": " Behind the counter, the mechanical nerves of the system change words to holes on", "start": 372.94, "stop": 377.42, "id": 95}, {"text": " tape and the holes on tape to electrical impulses speeding over the wires.", "start": 377.42, "stop": 381.38, "id": 96}, {"text": " Here is the urgent order for the twenty-ton crane.", "start": 382.62, "stop": 384.86, "id": 97}, {"text": " To the Western Union operator, impartially and impersonally sending an", "start": 389.2, "stop": 395.88, "id": 98}, {"text": " almost endless flow of words.", "start": 395.88, "stop": 397.58, "id": 99}, {"text": " The contrast between six-pound babies and twenty-ton cranes passes", "start": 398.22, "stop": 403.58, "id": 100}, {"text": " by almost without notice.", "start": 403.58, "stop": 405.1, "id": 101}, {"text": " Now the operator starts the stork gram.", "start": 406.54, "stop": 408.5, "id": 102}, {"text": " A quick tap of the keyboard and another.", "start": 409.38, "stop": 412.0, "id": 103}, {"text": " Punch the key signals that will guide the", "start": 412.72, "stop": 414.86, "id": 104}, {"text": " message automatically to its destination.", "start": 414.86, "stop": 416.46, "id": 105}, {"text": " Now it's gone.", "start": 418.44, "stop": 419.88, "id": 106}, {"text": " Already arriving at Syracuse.", "start": 420.48, "stop": 422.02, "id": 107}, {"text": " High speed message center for the territory in which the telegram originated.", "start": 422.76, "stop": 426.38, "id": 108}, {"text": " And a link in the chain of mechanized centers throughout the country.", "start": 427.12, "stop": 429.94, "id": 109}, {"text": " Good news 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513.58, "stop": 514.6, "id": 129}, {"text": " Love, Fred.", "start": 515.36, "stop": 515.98, "id": 130}, {"text": " It seems to take longer to tell than it takes to do this", "start": 517.1, "stop": 520.14, "id": 131}, {"text": " passage of a message by Western Union.", "start": 520.14, "stop": 521.98, "id": 132}, {"text": " And at the very same time we follow this message, the order for the 20 ton crane", "start": 522.68, "stop": 527.34, "id": 133}, {"text": " has reached its final destination.", "start": 527.34, "stop": 529.32, "id": 134}, {"text": " Preston, California, thousands of miles farther away.", "start": 530.12, "stop": 532.96, "id": 135}, {"text": " Reached it and already delivered.", "start": 533.86, "stop": 535.86, "id": 136}, {"text": " Because distance means nothing when it's at the end of a telegraph circuit.", "start": 536.4, "stop": 540.18, "id": 137}, {"text": " The sailors request for shore leave money from Dad, gone.", "start": 541.34, "stop": 545.16, "id": 138}, {"text": " Off at the same time as the telegram's about six pound twins and 20 ton cranes.", "start": 545.94, "stop": 549.78, "id": 139}, {"text": " Delivered in Bassett, Maryland, by one of Western Union's newest", "start": 550.38, "stop": 554.56, "id": 140}, {"text": " developments, TelaCar.", "start": 554.56, "stop": 556.08, "id": 141}, {"text": " A modern message center on wheels, which receives telegrams by radio in facsimile", "start": 556.86, "stop": 562.7, "id": 142}, {"text": " while cruising in outlying areas.", "start": 562.7, "stop": 564.94, "id": 143}, {"text": " Virtually a telegraph center at the doorstep.", "start": 565.94, "stop": 568.52, "id": 144}, {"text": " And in less time than would be imagined, the sailor will have the money he wants", "start": 569.9, "stop": 573.16, "id": 145}, {"text": " through the speed magic of a telegraphic money order.", "start": 573.16, "stop": 576.02, "id": 146}, {"text": " This is the network of interconnecting high speed message 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829.54, "id": 205}, {"text": " man is a public servant.", "start": 829.54, "stop": 831.06, "id": 206}, {"text": " When great issues are at stake, the people speak their minds in a flood of", "start": 832.08, "stop": 835.42, "id": 207}, {"text": " telegrams that may total tens of thousands in one 24-hour period.", "start": 835.42, "stop": 839.24, "id": 208}, {"text": " Through its high-speed centers and other facilities, Western Union stands ready", "start": 840.18, "stop": 844.16, "id": 209}, {"text": " to carry far greater traffic than the nation demands.", "start": 844.16, "stop": 846.62, "id": 210}, {"text": " One section of its system operates by microwave beam transmission.", "start": 847.64, "stop": 851.88, "id": 211}, {"text": " From towers like this in Washington, more than 2,000 telegrams can be sent and", "start": 852.3, "stop": 857.6, "id": 212}, {"text": " received simultaneously on a single radio beam, traveling with the speed of light", "start": 857.6, "stop": 862.9, 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communication conforms to the traditional demand of the military", "start": 935.04, "stop": 939.08, "id": 231}, {"text": " for realistic records.", "start": 939.08, "stop": 940.68, "id": 232}, {"text": " The Army and Air Force use private telegraph systems to coordinate the vast", "start": 941.74, "stop": 946.26, "id": 233}, {"text": " organizations operated by specially trained service personnel.", "start": 946.26, "stop": 949.7, "id": 234}, {"text": " Theirs are among the greatest communication centers ever designed and", "start": 950.88, "stop": 954.18, "id": 235}, {"text": " serviced by Western Union.", "start": 954.18, "stop": 955.76, "id": 236}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 967.02, "stop": 967.9, "id": 237}, {"text": " They're all here, they're all late. What do you read? They're all here.", "start": 967.9, "stop": 971.32, "id": 238}, {"text": " Hey! Hey! What do you read?", "start": 971.48, "stop": 973.8, "id": 239}, {"text": " Hi, Joe. Hi.", "start": 974.08, "stop": 975.16, "id": 240}, {"text": " Yeah, that's more like it, Joe. It's got news, yeah.", "start": 977.58, "stop": 981.3, "id": 241}, {"text": " I can't figure out why that last edition was blank. A break, I guess.", "start": 981.94, "stop": 985.32, "id": 242}, {"text": " It's all there now, all right. The things that happen to people and the", "start": 985.86, "stop": 990.08, "id": 243}, {"text": " things that people made to happen.", "start": 990.08, "stop": 991.68, "id": 244}, {"text": " There's just one blank space in this edition of the paper, but that will be", "start": 992.74, "stop": 996.78, "id": 245}, {"text": " filled in the next edition, because the story is happening right now.", "start": 996.78, "stop": 1001.02, "id": 246}, {"text": " A reporter is taking notes in the research center of Western Union, and what he", "start": 1002.16, "stop": 1006.36, "id": 247}, {"text": " is looking at will make the story that will fill the last", "start": 1006.36, "stop": 1009.38, "id": 248}, {"text": " empty space in the newspaper.", "start": 1009.38, "stop": 1010.92, "id": 249}, {"text": " The story is a familiar one to Western Union, a new one to the reporter.", "start": 1011.72, "stop": 1016.34, "id": 250}, {"text": " It's the story of an endless search for improved facilities to serve the", "start": 1017.28, "stop": 1021.1, "id": 251}, {"text": " communications needs of America.", "start": 1021.1, "stop": 1022.9, "id": 252}, {"text": " The news peg of the story is one of the finds of that search.", "start": 1024.0, "stop": 1027.5, "id": 253}, {"text": " High-speed facsimile transmission and reception of both words and pictures.", "start": 1028.38, "stop": 1033.52, "id": 254}, {"text": " In a matter of seconds, 3,500 words are sent and received.", "start": 1034.28, "stop": 1038.36, "id": 255}, {"text": " Here is a look into the future of communications, a long way from the early key", "start": 1041.2, "stop": 1046.72, "id": 256}, {"text": " that clapped out dot and dash messages.", "start": 1046.72, "stop": 1049.1, "id": 257}, {"text": " Here is modern telegraphy at work, sending and receiving infaccimally, placing", "start": 1050.28, "stop": 1055.38, "id": 258}, {"text": " all of a vast system at the user's elbow.", "start": 1055.38, "stop": 1057.78, "id": 259}, {"text": " Here is telegraphy today, hurtling millions of words across thousands of miles", "start": 1064.04, "stop": 1069.38, "id": 260}, {"text": " automatically, guided and controlled by the magic brain of an", "start": 1069.38, "stop": 1073.32, "id": 261}, {"text": " almost infallible system.", "start": 1073.32, "stop": 1075.26, "id": 262}, {"text": " Speeding messages to destinations with just the push of a button to better serve", "start": 1081.18, "stop": 1085.84, "id": 263}, {"text": " America everywhere, to bring distant friends and business customers within arms", "start": 1085.84, "stop": 1090.7, "id": 264}, {"text": " reach through the swiftness of the yellow blank.", "start": 1090.7, "stop": 1093.44, "id": 265}, {"text": " A long way from the old hand-to-hand relay from point to point, slow and at", "start": 1094.16, "stop": 1099.46, "id": 266}, {"text": " the mercy of human error.", "start": 1099.46, "stop": 1101.0, "id": 267}, {"text": " Here is the thin white ribbon of words, unchangeable, accurate, moving the", "start": 1103.42, "stop": 1110.12, "id": 268}, {"text": " message it carries lightning fast.", "start": 1110.12, "stop": 1111.88, "id": 269}, {"text": " Visible transcript of the sender's thoughts, actual record of what has been said.", "start": 1112.76, "stop": 1117.62, "id": 270}, {"text": " Here is telegraphy on wheels, roaming the streets of outlying districts to bring", "start": 1118.68, "stop": 1123.3, "id": 271}, {"text": " telegraph service right to the front door.", "start": 1123.3, "stop": 1125.14, "id": 272}, {"text": " The radio beam tower and its amazing capacity of 2,000 telegrams at a", "start": 1126.1, "stop": 1130.3, "id": 273}, {"text": " time on a single radio beam.", "start": 1130.3, "stop": 1131.88, "id": 274}, {"text": " That's a long way from the one telegram on one wire of a century ago.", "start": 1132.66, "stop": 1137.64, "id": 275}, {"text": " From this telegraph center of the world, headquarters of Western Union in New", "start": 1138.48, "stop": 1142.8, "id": 276}, {"text": " York, comes a telegram, a telegram for America.", "start": 1142.8, "stop": 1147.3, "id": 277}, {"text": " Union is proud of its record through the first hundred years. 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