Word: telegraphe
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...Japanese are keen students of baseball and they know a fine play when they see one. What struck us was the use of carrier pigeons in place of the telegraph for reporting the games. These pigeons flew between the Tokyo ball park and the newspaper offices...
...Partners come and go, firms merge, dissolve, start up. Most notable change of last week was Kidder, Peabody & Co.'s absorption of old Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Formed 66 years ago in Boston, Kidder, Peabody was long famed as a conservative New England banking house and distributor of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. shares. In 1930 the partnership was dissolved, the business liquidated. New men & money came forward, took over the old name. Both Kidder, Peabody and Kissel, Kinnicutt hold memberships in the New York Stock Exchange although the former has not occupied its seat. Kissel, Kinnicutt has been active in underwriting...
...prohibitive, except for emergency shipments. Even the reduced rates are eleven times higher than rail express for a 50-lb. shipment from coast to coast. 2) There is no uniformity in practice. Some airlines coordinate with Railway Express Agency for ground handling, others with Western Union, others with Postal Telegraph. A few provide their own ground transportation and many offer none at all. Each system has its own rate schedule...
President Hoover had taken the precaution to poll most of Congress by telephone and telegraph last June on his Moratorium. He knew 68 Senators, 276 Congressmen were already pledged to legalize the postponement of $246,000,000 owed the U. S. this year, too many to make the opposition of such men as Speaker Garner in the House and California's Hiram Johnson in the Senate really threatening. But the Democratic House had no intention of speeding up its machinery to give the President the law he wanted in a hurry. He had refused to call a special session...
...that Senor Alcala Zamora was elected, a bill was introduced in the Cortes declaring International Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s Spanish telephone monopoly illegal, providing for confiscation "and a just indemnification" within six months. Over $30,000,000 of U. S. money is invested in Spanish telephones...