Word: radiotelegraphic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive committee. Chief executive will be I.T. & T.'s new president, Edmond H. Leavey (TIME, May 7). Hawk-faced Sosthenes Behn founded I.T. & T. in 1920, when he and brother Hernand bought a struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged that I.T. & T. should never have acquired ailing Postal Telegraph (which was sold to Western Union in 1943) or ventured into consumer-goods manufacturing, which turned...
Bound for Norfolk from Rhode Island aboard her ocean-going yacht When & If, Mrs. George S. Patton Jr., widow of the wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was notified of the death of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Waters, after a widespread sea search by the Coast Guard, radiotelegraph stations and a commercial radio station. Mrs. Patton put in to port and rushed back to her daughter's home in Highland Falls...
...signal would be reflected from many places on the moon. So the moonstruck TV screen would show a tangle of ghosts, just as if the transmitter were surrounded by tall buildings. But messages by way of the. moon may become a dependable aid to long-distance communications by radiotelegraph and radiotelephone...