Word: telegraphe
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...Frank Baldwin Jewett, 56, vice president in charge of research of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president in charge of research of General Motors Corp.; the Franklin medal of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, awarded annually for salient achievements in phys ical science or technology, "without regard to country," from a fund established in 1914 by Utilitarian Samuel Insull...
...still prevails. Last month in Washington the Federal Communications Commission started listening in on The Telephone Company (TIME, March 30). In the past fortnight the Commission's dapper young inquisitor, Samuel Becker, has picked up the following nuggets, most of which in any comprehensive investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. could hardly be rated as more than prime gossip...
...slaughtering and provisions business. Succeeding generations of Joneses and Laughlins have been cast with remarkable regularity in the mold of the founding partners. The Joneses went for steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death in 1928. In his later years active command was in the hands...
...copies of an eight-page flood extra. Paul Block's Post-Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...
...year ago last week Congress instructed the Federal Communications Commission to find out all there was to find out about American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Among reasons cited in support of the Congressional resolution ordering the investigation was the fact that the Bell System had hitherto been entirely overlooked as a subject for a high-powered New Deal inquiry. That omission was in itself an extraordinary tribute to the company's management, for a more likely object for Congressional scrutiny could hardly be imagined...