With today’s technological advances and social media platforms, getting real-time, on-the-ground prices from around the country will be much easier than relying on the letters and telegrams used in 1948.—TIME, 3 Apr. 2024 Agam was last seen on a Hamas telegram video being led on October 7th to a car while still in her pajamas.—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024 Only the first half of his prediction proved correct: Stanton and his team immediately began sending out telegrams rallying soldiers and detectives to hunt down Booth.—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 But a telegram sent to the War Department on the morning of April 24 shifted the search’s focus to Virginia.—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 Schneider then read a telegram from Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi, who was the head of the North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks.—Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024 Image To many, landline phones have come to seem as essential as steamships and telegrams in the smartphone era.—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024 The telegram to Friar Park provides the coda to the correspondence.—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 Items up for sale include photos of Boyd, Harrison and Clapton, as well as postcards, telegrams and letters.—Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
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