Word: telegraphe
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John Edward Otterson, president of Electrical Research Products, Inc., a subsidiary of Western Electric, in turn a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph, is the third member of the triumvirate. Twenty million dollars of sound equipment in the 1,200 Fox Theatres was installed by his company. In addition, Western Electric receives royalties on its patents used by Fox, is therefore concerned with the future business of the company...
Next evening the Mob marched to Eastland jail. They dragged Murderer Ratliff from his bunk, stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
...American Telephone & Telegraph estimated its 1930 expenditures for expansion at over $600,000,000. United Gas Improvement Co. placed its expansion at $41,000,000, $6,500,000 more than this year. Total utility construction during 1930 was estimated at about $850,000,000. Thus will utility companies, blamed as the most inflated of all before the break, be almost as big benefactors as the railways...
...great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week...
...Africa, telegraph linesmen, long mystified by the destruction of wires over the veldt, discovered that languid giraffes use them for head rests...