Word: cablese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It consists of a platform 210 x 60 ft. which turns on a swivel base 40 ft. in diameter to keep the length parallel with the direction of the wind. This swiveling is essential because planes can properly land or take off only against the wind. The platform also tilts...
Graybar. A. T. & T. owns the Western Electric Co., which owns the Graybar Electric Co., which is the world's largest ($75,000,000 business in 1928) distributor of electrical supplies (telephone apparatus, train despatching equipment, cables, loud speakers). A. T. & T. has long been focusing its subsidiaries on...
Followed a Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill parley. Directly afterward Messrs. Gilbert and Churchill proceeded to the British Embassy for lunch-and their luncheon companion was John Pierpont Morgan.* Not until the cables flashed MORGAN did men of caution and property recognize that the story had really broken. Only then were...
Cables flashed. Mr. William Randolph Hearst called personally on President Calvin Coolidge. The President was understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like...
Speed! The wires spat that, near Milan, on the Grand Prix Course, famed Racing Driver Antonio Materassi is roaring to victory at 120 miles per hour. Death! The car swerves and plunges into the grandstand. Materassi is killed. So are 21 spectators. Cables flash to the U. S. that among...