Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time. New York Telephone Co. subscribers bought time, last week, at the rate of 5? a unit. They could lift the receiver, call Meridian 1212 and demand the correct time, paying the regular charge for a local call. On the first day of the new service, 10,246 subscribers paid $512.30 for the time...
Money. In Terre Haute, Ind., money moved from behind iron bars, to the curb in front of the Citizens National Bank & Trust Co. Within a cage set up on the sidewalk sat a teller. Banking motorists could cash checks, make deposits, without leaving their cars...
...Associated Press knew that the third member of "all three of us" was Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co...
Decoded, it would have read: "Have received no letter from you since June 3rd. Are you all right? Please reply by telegraph. Pancake." The recipient of the cable would have recognized the mysterious Pancake as Carl O. Pancake, assistant secretary of the Guaranty Trust Co., technical delegate to the approaching International Telegraph Conference at Brussels...
...Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, Delegate Pancake conferred with fellow delegates, viewed with alarm a proposed change in cable rates. Up for discussion at Brussels will be the "Cortina report," recommending that code words be limited to five letters instead of ten, the cost of sending a 5-letter word to be 68% of the present 10-letter rate. Thus Mr. Pancake's hypothetical cable would read