Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signalled failure. Planes went aloft, could see nothing. The sea grew rougher. Minesweepers moved back and forth, touched something, found it was a wreck. All that day and night the search went on. All day, all night, news was flashed to the cities of Britain. Sir Bolton sent a telegram to wives of married members of the crew: "We regret to inform you that your husband is missing and is feared drowned. . . ." Thomas Morris' wife read her telegram, waited at the post office for another...
...first five days 81% more cars were sold than at last year's show, and Hudson, proud to say that during the first day it sold 300% more cars than during the entire 1931 Show. Aiding Hudson was a unique publicity stunt. At one swoop 1,207.500 telegrams were sent to persons owning Hudsons and Essexes or cars in similar ranges, urging them to visit the Hudson showrooms. The telegraphing was done by a special arrangement with Postal Telegraph-Cable, a master telegram being sent to about 700 cities, copied there for local distribution...
...large & small - from an analysis of the latest U. S. census to the manner of addressing an archdeacon? The answer was "No." but not everyone knew it until last week when the 47th annual edition appeared. The publisher is, of course, the Scripps-Howard organization, owner of the World-Telegram. But the book is still called The World Almanac & Book of Facts; its cover still bears the familiar design of the ugly gilt dome of the old World Building, and its editor still is Robert Hunt Lyman. The 1932 Almanac does not differ from last year's by much...
...handy conclusion that Publisher Hearst had the hungry accept alms, in the glare of Broadway instead of on a darkened side street- simply to get cheap advertising for his paper. Day before the breadline was opened last month the Welfare Council of New York City sent Publisher Hearst a telegram stating that: 1) breadlines are unnecessary in New York, as facilities for feeding & lodging homeless men are ample; 2) public feeding "raises serious questions of public policy." Last week the Welfare Council published Publisher Hearst's telegram of reply: MY OPINION IS THAT IF FEEDING THE HUNGRY BY BREADLINES...
...bond house. He said: "I feel that I cannot do justice to both studies and tennis in the spring months. . . . Naturally, I want to . . . help win back the Davis Cup, if I am lucky enough to be named on the team." Next day, Vines received a concerned and friendly telegram from Chairman Hoi-combe Ward of the U. S. L. T. A.'s Davis Cup Committee: "Advise reconsideration your decision. No players required for Davis Cup competition before May 15, by which date your season's scholastic work should be near completion. Committee considers your education paramount. ..." Interviewed...