Word: telegraphe
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...cable can carry a wide enough frequency band. Such an arrange ment enables the cable-carried waves to be fortified by amplifiers at intervals along the route, minimizes tonal losses due to static and fading. Such a cable is the famed coaxial cable developed by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s research subsidiary, Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...from existing endowments have vanished or have been materially reduced." While Mr. Smith was pleading his high cause, suspension of nation-wide ticker service with the day's closing prices and final bid & ask quotations brought down a flood of startled inquiries and outraged protests by telephone and telegraph...
...year ago last March Congress ordered the Federal Communications Commission to look into American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largely because it never had been investigated before. An original $750,000 appropriation became $1,150,000, and FCC investigators began to find out all there was to know about the monopolistic Bell System. One thing they found out was that over a 22-year period A. T. & T. had earned 10.9% on its long-distance business. Last January A. T. & T. "voluntarily" reduced rates on night and Sunday long-distance calls, knocked $4,000,000 off the U. S. telephone subscribers...
...King fortnight ago visited the depressed areas of South Wales (TIME, Nov. 30), and was overheard to exclaim to Welsh proletarians: "Something must be done for Wales!" This having been printed by Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, Baron Camrose's Daily Telegraph hotly retorted: "Those who would make a whip to beat the Ministers out of the kind and human feelings the King has shown are not helping the depressed areas but are doing His Majesty a grave disservice...
...impression was produced when an audience which scores of British officials knew Mr. Baldwin had had with Edward VIII was unprecedentedly omitted from mention in the royal Court Circular next morning. British public life moves with such regularity in its accustomed grooves that for the Prime Minister, suddenly by telegraph, to summon members of his Cabinet to drop everything and rush to meet him at No. 10 Downing Street is a sign that the Empire is facing a national crisis comparable to threatened war and the Prime Minister gave that sign last week. He followed it by conferring with...