Sentence examples for telegram costs from inspiring English sources
Hemingway claimed that development of his laconic style was based on "cablese" -- the necessary shortening of news dispatches to limit expensive telegram costs.
Al Capone asked him to send a telegram, it cost 50 cents, Capone gave him a fifty-dollar bill and told him to keep the change.
Unfortunately, Jong, though "smart and ethical and clever", was rather a quiet type (as her grandfather put it: "He communicates like a telegram, as if words cost money").
A group of investors led by Gardiner Hubbard wanted to establish a federally chartered telegraph company to compete with Western Union by contracting with the Post Office to send low-cost telegrams.
Because part of the cost of sending a telegram was a charge per word, senders grew ingenious at finding ways to write economically.
According to Dwain Price of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, the trade will cost owners "approximately $750,000 because until they can find an owner for the New Orleans franchise, the Hornets are really owned by the NBA".
Last year only 20,000 telegrams were sent at the cost of $10 each.
The high cost of sending telegrams, at least in the early days of the technology, led to starker, simpler prose.
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