Word: telegraphe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly of 700 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock...
...Vincent Bendix has risen from a Postal Telegraph messenger to head the $31,000,000 Bendix Aviation Corp., which makes at least one part of every U. S. automobile (starters, four-wheel brakes, air brakes, carburetors, air horns), also makes precision instruments of many kinds for airplanes. Last January when the epidemic of airplane crashes focused attention on radio beams, direction finders, loop antennae, etc., etc. (TIME, Jan. 25), Vincent Bendix decided to capitalize on it by amalgamating his radio interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro...
...cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first one on nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values doubled on Nob Hill and all real estate boomed for several years as the city spread from Telegraph Hill to Twin Peaks with cable cars sprouting in every direction. Today cable cars are only a small part of San Francisco's transit system, but they are still one of its quaintest and most distinctive features...
...Only thing for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to do when making up last year's annual report was to forget all about its $63,000,000 investment in Spain. Accordingly, President Sosthenes Behn wrote to stockholders last week, I. T. & T.'s 1936 net profits were only $4,009,000. This compared with $2,553,000 in 1935 without Spanish operations, $5,787,000 with them...
Next day and the next New London's streets held a steady cavalcade of death. In the Pleasant Hill Cemetery shifts of workers were put to digging 400 graves. From Dallas came 200 coffins. On Saturday night almost every store except the telegraph office was deserted. On Sunday families buried their dead in a great mass funeral. Standing with the hundreds of parents on the Cemetery hillside were nurses to help the mourners who collapsed or fainted...