Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Heywood Campbell Broun was born in Brooklyn, December 7, 1888. He studied at Harvard (1906-1910), has been connected with the Morning Telegraph and New York Tribune as sportswriter, war correspondent, dramatic critic and colyumist, and at the present time his column in the New York World, It Seems To Me, is unique in its field. He is the author of Seeing Things at Night and Pieces of Hate (books of short essays and sketches) and The Boy Grew Older (a novel...
...sixth class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun upon F. R. Lack, now a special student at the University. This honor was bestowed on Mr. Lack in recognition of his services as an International Western Electric engineer in connection with the installation of the first printing telegraph in Japan...
...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...