Word: telegraphe
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...York Times: for 13 years he covered Vienna for them, for four years was their bureau chief. But the name on the door of a second little cubbyhole office he used was changed frequently. First it was the London Times; then in succession London's Express and Telegraph. As Hitler rose to power, Gedye's impassioned warnings fell painfully on British ears...
...road was also in constant use by two million nomadic savages, who were dead-shots with the kind of sling that David used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...
...railroad system is heavily damaged. Port facilities for the most part are ready for use. once the mines are removed. The oil and chemical industries are pretty well smashed. So are public utilities-electricity, telephone and telegraph, water supplies, streetcar and bus systems. Steel mills and shipyards are damaged, but probably in better shape than most Americans think. The bombing program never called for complete destruction of the steel industry; the Japs were deliberatelv allowed to waste manpower on ships which were sunk as soon as they took to the seas. Long accustomed to disaster, the Japs themselves may well...
...More than 95% of its orders for carbon and alloy steels, copper, aluminum, artillery, tanks, guns, railroad rolling stock, telephone, radio and telegraph equipment...
...Giant $65 billion American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week announced the biggest of all postwar expansion programs. To improve and modernize the service of its 17 controlled Bell Telephone operating systems, A.T. & T. is ready to spend $2 billion-at least half of it as quickly as materials and manpower are available...