Word: telegraphe
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...first patented typewriter and the first letter written on it; remains of Morse's telegraph and Bell's telephone; the log of the Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic...
...What is the Government so worried about?" was the typical public reaction. The Telegraph (which for some months has succeeded the Times as Tory spokesman) said that the Mirror's cartoon and Cassandra's jobs "come under the head of irresponsible wrecking of morale." But the rest of the British press, from the Conservative Times to the Laborite Herald, sided with the Mirror against Morrison...
...American Telephone & Telegraph (57% of all shareholders: women) would pay $173,468,000 taxes instead of $106,268,000; profits per share would fall from $10.26 to $6.65, well below the famed $9 dividend...
When news came through of the Japanese submarine attack near Santa Barbara, the grapevine telegraph slyly tapped out a suggestion: "General MacArthur should send a message to the commanding general of the Ninth Corps Area [which includes "air-raided" Los Angeles- see p. 14] saying: 'If you can hold out for 30 days, will send help...
Cross-Ups. In Philadelphia, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Früs sued a telegraph company for $15,000 for the "anguish" they said they had been caused when Mr. Friis received a misdirected telegram from a strange woman...