Word: telegraphe
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Homer, at 14, runs into little which might obstruct his capacity for love. At the telegraph office where he works, the manager is incapable of disliking anything, and the operator, Grogan, soaks away in whiskey the sadness of the messages he gives & takes. Homer's history teacher talks to him with a democratic wisdom and kindness which, if it were true of teaching in general, would long ago have left nations incapable of war. On the job, to be sure, Homer has to carry messages of death in war to mothers in the town, and in these more complicated...
...hold its ceiling prices on most non-farm products and services, thus aiding & abetting a wild buying boom (see below). Strangest decision of all was that of the Federal Communications Commission, which proudly announced that it was saving the U.S. $34,700,000 per year by persuading American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to cut its long-distance overtime rates at the very time when the company is far overburdened with long-distance calls...
Bulgaria. Some 25,000 arrests, 36 executions reportedly followed open insurrection and revolt. The insurgents were pro-Russian, many were proCommunist. The underground Communist newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo attracted enough notice to be frequently quoted in the Swedish press. Railroad and police stations were attacked. Telephone and telegraph communications between Bulgaria and all other countries were cut off for seven days. The unrest last week was attributed to reports that King Boris had agreed to send 20 divisions to help Hitler against Russia...
Only the Brooklyn Eagle, the Bronx Home News, the Morning Telegraph, a racing sheet and PM, a cross between a tabloid and a magazine, came out during the strike. PM did not capitalize on the situation by turning itself into a real newspaper, but succeeded in quadrupling its 150,000 circulation by being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced...
Giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week reminded the Government of the ancient law of economics, that lower prices tend to increase demand. The reminder was a perfect answer to Government summons for a cut in telephone rates...