Word: telegraphe
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...Income and profits $2,086,904,069 $1,689,159,917 Estates 139,418,846 126,704,979 Transportation 169,518,727 Telegraph and telephone 29,271,521 30,265,954 Insurace 10,855,403 Beverages 79,113,720 40,484,661 Cigars and tobacco 269,771,109 308,010,533 Admissions and dues 80,000,589 77,316,520 Excise taxes 174,327,832 185,042,234 Special Taxes 91,532,314 91,526,753 Stamp taxes 58,706,964 64,875, 113 Child labor...
...case the trip was made in 26 hours and 9 minutes-41 minutes less than the transcontinental flight record. Of course, the corollary of this attainment was that San Francisco and New York read each other's newspapers hardly more than 24 hours after publication. As the telegraph, cable and wireless have speeded up news transmission to those department stores of knowledge, the daily newspapers, so the aeroplane, it seems, will accelerate the news department stores' deliveries to their customers. Assuming that such a thing as aeroplane circulation for newspapers develops, it will open new journalistic problems...
...Finance Minister started other reforms in motion: tax collecting is proceeding on strictly business lines to the embarrassment of big business men, freight charges were raised 2,000%, the postal telegraph and telephone services are all being put on a sound paying gold basis. On account of these reforms the cost of living advanced 192.2% last week with considerable damage to Herr Hilferding's popularity...
...heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb...
...waiting outside the Presi- dent's door in the hallway? almost deserted because it was thought that the President's health was improving. Regardless of this fact an Associated Press man had been on hand continuously. As soon as the President collapsed, the reporter was away with the news. Telegraph operators had been ordered not to leave their instruments. Only a few minutes later the news was in newspaper offices throughout the country. That was journalistic preparedness, not journalistic luck. But what befell Samuel George Blythe and The Saturday Evening Post was decidedly luck. Only a few days before...