Word: telegraphe
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...Israelis pulled slowly back along their three invasion roads, they tore up or blew up the shoreline railway tracks, chopped down telegraph poles, and dynamited even railworkers' huts. The most awesome destruction they wrought on the roads themselves. At a point ten miles east of the canal, the blacktop central road abruptly changed into a jumble of shredded rock. Giant-pronged Israeli machines similar to the "rooters" with which retreating Germans and Italians wrecked roads and railroads in World War II had ripped the pavement to a depth of 12 to 18 in. Last week gangs of Egyptian workmen...
...greater trouble than his manner suggested. The drama of Suez, which had roused patriotic support for him, was over. Now Britain faced the bleak penalties of the blocked canal, which were making their dragging weight felt in every British home and factory. Three influential journals-the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Economist-greeted his return by wondering, almost with one voice, whether Eden was up to his job. Wrote the Daily Telegraph, the most Tory of them all: "The strain will become greater, not less. If Sir Anthony can bear it, and give the leadership for which the country...
House Cleaning. The stabilization loan announced last week came about after Bolivia, in despair, got the services of a U.S. consultant named George Jackson Eder, legal counsel for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and an old Latin American hand. The sum, equal at the present 10,000-to-$1 boliviano rate to nearly double the value of the 140 billion bolivianos now in circulation, should be enough, if carefully fed into the dollar market, to roll the boliviano well back. The experts guess that the boliviano's realistic rate will turn...
...counted upon to put most snidely what others may be thinking, compared Eden's generalship with Hitler's conduct in leading his troops to Stalingrad and leaving them there, except that "Hitler, with all his faults, did not winter in Jamaica." The Conservative Daily Telegraph reported Eden in Jamaica keeping in "fitful touch with London." which was not "fair to his colleagues in London-or, indeed, to the country." In the bars of Fleet Street and the clubs of St. James's, Eden's future and a possible realignment of Tory, leadership were the universal topics...
Modern scientific meteorology was founded on the telegraph, with an assist from the Crimean War. On Nov. 14, 1854, a violent storm sank key vessels of a Franco-British fleet in Balaklava harbor. At the request of the French Minister of War, the famed Astronomer Urbain Le Verrier studied the storm and reported that it could have been tracked across Europe by the new-fangled telegraph. Soon after his report sank in, most of Europe (and later the U.S.) had a telegraphic storm-warning service...