Word: telegraphe
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...members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance sheet. This request Crosley ignored...
...Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. supply their own poles...
...Jacob Astor 3rd by writing about his life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...
...Daily Telegraph in eight years under the Berry Brothers went from 80,000 to 532,000 circulation, without using the stunts and free insurance schemes which have been standard promotion practice with many of the big British dailies. But it was one of the first British class papers to reduce its price (in 1930) from twopence to a penny to compete with the popular press. It still has a long way to go to reach the huge figures of the Daily Express (2,162,979), Daily Herald (2,000,000), Daily Mail (1,717,133). But in prestige and influence...
...papers and keeps his personality out of them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes 21 newspapers and more than 100 periodicals, which he divided last winter with his brother, Lord Kemsley, who took the Daily Sketch, Sunday Times (no connection with the Times), several provincial and Scottish...