Word: telegraphe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First chosen were ports for U. S. cargoes (St. Nazaire, La Pallice, Bordeaux and, later, Brest). Docks and storehouses had to be built. Railroads had to be repaired or renewed. Base hospitals had to be set up. A complete telephone and telegraph system had to be installed because, explained General Pershing, "the lines throughout France were so inefficient and unreliable, as government-owned utilities usually are." Ammunition depots, training camps, aviation fields had to be laid out. And through this ever-expanding system had to be kept moving an ever-expanding supply for an ever-expanding army...
...Diego 8:10 a.m. Return trip: Leave San Diego 10:15 p.m., arrive Los Angeles 11:30 p.m., San Francisco 3:30 a.m., Seattle n a.m. The season's opening was also marked by the climax of a sharp fight between Western Union and Postal Telegraph Co. for the exclusive rights to sell airline tickets at their branch offices. Last week Western Union had made contracts with 18 airlines, to Postal's ten. But Postal's list represented 57,000 mi. of airway to Western Union...
Author Stockton's Dipsey crawled under icebergs to the Pole in 1947. It was equipped with hydraulic thermometer, lead sounding instruments, ascension shells to blast its way to the surface if necessary. Electric gills fed air to its 13 occupants (only one was a woman). A telegraph cable paid out behind from a drum to keep the Dipsey in touch with its Greenland base. By sheer "spellin' book navigation," the Pole was reached and buoyed with a seven-starred flag (by 1947 the U. S. had joined a hegemony of North and Central American nations). Leaving...
...Public Service Ticket Office Inc.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A Hungarian Jew, he was the first ticket broker to buy up blocks of seats, sell them at cut rates. Early this year he took over the distribution system planned by the League of New York Theatres with Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. to reduce ticket speculation. Through his agencies, his real estate deals, his backing of Broadway productions he accumulated some $20,000,000. Among many plays which he saved from failure: Rose Marie, Abie's Irish Rose, The Cat and the Canary...
Into the address which he was to read to the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan this week, President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largest corporation in the land, had the wit to put a paragraph which the Press would surely quote...