Word: telegraphe
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...Ababa, he ordered his Ambassador to Britain, Dino Grandi, to pay a formal visit to Anthony Eden. The proper button was pressed, the Italian Press burgeoned with articles referring to Italy's long friendship for Britain, and II Duce himself received Correspondent Gordon Lennox of the London Daily Telegraph. Said...
When American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated radio-telephone service in 1927, few people except bankers and politicians could afford to use it. A three-minute Manhattan-to-London call cost $75. During the first year of the service only 2,500 calls were made. The following year A. T. & T. was able to make the first rate cut, London calls dropping to $45. In 1930 another cut was made, bringing London down to $30. Record day on this schedule was last Christmas when 360 overseas calls were handled in 24 hours. Last week A. T. & T. made still another...
Philadelphia boasts the oldest Stock Exchange in the country. It was formally organized in 1790, though an informal market was established nearly a half century earlier. Listings in those days included broadcloth and slaves. Before the telegraph, quotations were dispatched to Manhattan in ten minutes with semaphore systems. For the past 75 years Philadelphia has been asking for quotations from Manhattan, and the importance of its Stock Exchange has dropped below that of even Boston, San Francisco or Chicago...
...Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests...
...true sense of the word are concealed behind our numerous automobile accidents. The practicing psychiatrist is only too familiar with the neurotic and ostensibly normal individual who labors under the pressure of a violent but unconscious trend of self-destruction, and who either runs his automobile into a telegraph pole or lets himself be run over by an approaching car."-Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, Manhattan...