Word: telegraphe
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...probable that very few men who use the telephone company service realize the large number of college men who go into the various activities of telephone work every year, or of the definite campaign that has been developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and its associated Companies...
American Telephone & Telegraph. U. S. telephoning showed fewer "wrong numbers" and many more telephones, reported President Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The year added 798,592 phones to the Bell system, making a total of 19,200,000 U. S. phones in Bell system interconnections. Ignorant persons called "information" 750,000 times a day. American Tel & Tel showed a net income of $143,170,491, an increase of $14,555,581 over...
Clerk Forster's office is a little back room between the No. 1 Secretary's and the telegraph room. An humble cog, it is he, largely, who keeps the big wheel revolving...
...Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground, he exclaimed: "This is a fine...
...northwest of Cambridge, or near the Aleutian Islands, and the time of actual occurrence at 10.30 o'clock Alaskan Time, Monday evening. The direction, however, is only probable when calculated by a single station. The center of the shock is determined by government seismologists at Washington after receipt of telegraph reports from contributing stations...