Word: telegraphe
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Professor Shapley said that he had been at Buffalo and was naturally disappointed by the interference of the clouds there, but he went on to say: "While I didn't see the eclipse, I heard it all across the country. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company had arranged special wires between seven stations, Buffalo, Ithaca, Poughkeepsic, Middletown, Easthampton, Northampton and New York City. As the period of totality approached, the operator at each station in turn, beginning of course with Buffalo, reported the weather conditions and the time. When the actual phase of totality set on a certain prearranged signal...
...post-War problem of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in obtaining funds for bettering its equipment and service has been a huge one. Fortunately, the Company has enjoyed far-sighted management and excellent credit. As a result, the capitalization of the Company has been steadily increased through sales of its securities to the public. After a campaign designed to sell stock to telephone subscribers, such wide distribution of A. T. & T. shares has been obtained that the company's stockholders now number 300,000. This is the largest shareholders' list in the world; if all the company...
...driver killed. At Portsmouth, a tramcar was blown into a house. In Wales, the coal mines were flooded. Along the Thames, people were "drowned out of their houses." From every coastal point, news came to London telling of angry waves battering the piers and swamping the promenades. Damage to telegraph and telephone wires greatly interfered with communication, while Channel boats suspended service between England and France...
...Daily Telegraph of London gave the lie to a report (TIME, Dec. 22) that the War Lord had left Moscow for the Caucasus. According to this newspaper, his enemies had jailed...
Last week, the U. S. enlarged its speaking acquaintance. An amateur radio telegraph operator at Hartford, Conn., picked up a message from an amateur in Denmark, and replied. Denmark is the eleventh foreign country thus to be spoken with by amateurs. Others: England, France, Italy, Holland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Argentina, Chile...