Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train derailment had delayed him. When he arrived and unobstrusively entered the conference hall by a side door, a short grey-haired man in a sack suit, the delegates rose and applauded. He smiled, said nothing, took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh in the presentation. The young man, 26, who flew to world admiration...
Last week, it became apparent that such an executive had both asked and answered such a question. The executive was Col. Sosthenes Behn. His company was the 8-year-old International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which last week announced plans to pay $60,000,000 for the British-owned United River Plate Telephone Co., serving 185,000 subscribers in Buenos Aires and four Argentine provinces...
...this purchase, Col. Behn drew into I. T. & T.'s system the second largest telephone company in South America. British stockholders recalled, last week, that he had already gained control of the third largest (Chile Telephone Co.) and fourth largest (Montevideo Telephone Co.), both wrested from British interests. Last June, I. T. & T. celebrated an extraordinary feat. Fighting snowstorms, landslides, it had flung its telephone lines across the 13,000-ft. Andes, linking Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo...
...Col. Behn's great design thus became obvious to the most casual observer. I. T. & T. cables stretch to the west coast of South America. Here they connect with the trans-Andean cable and telephone lines. And these lines in turn connect with the domestic telephone systems of Chile, Uruguay and now, Argentina. Thus a fast message may be relayed from New York to a house in the suburbs of Montevideo without once leaving I. T. & T. wires...
Socialists feared that the Chancellor was taking advantage of the crisis precipitated last week by a government employes' strike (see col. 2) to jam through an emergency measure so contrived that one year hence the beak-nosed Monsignor might himself assume the Presidency with semi-dictatorial powers. Still it was significant that Chancellor Seipel had said, impatiently lecturing strike leaders: "What Austria needs is a strong President to keep her house in order!" To many Socialists the inference seemed inescapable. Seipel, already strong, wanted to be stronger, strongest...