Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belize. The Spirit of St. Louis hovers uncertainly over a polo field, swerves downward, barely missing a skein of telegraph wires, touches and runs almost to the field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism...
Public Utilities. Although no official discussions have occurred, Consolidated Gas, Brooklyn Union Gas Co. and Brooklyn-Edison Co. Inc., public utilities in New York City are in advantageous position for fusion. Their joined assets would total almost $1,000,000,000. Among public utilities only American Telephone & Telegraph would be larger...
Each morning thousands of Britons turn to the Telegraph's sporting page and scan attentively whatever appears above the enigmatic signature "B. B." Under that monogram writes jovial, astute Benjamin Bennison?and on the staff there have been constantly not a few journalists of nearly equal fame...
...syndicate which bought the Telegraph last week is that of Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic, Sunday Times, and a great bloc of Midland newspapers, and who last year acquired a large interest in the publishing properties of the late Sir Edward Hutton...
...calls originated in England, less than three a day. Fees paid totaled $250,000, but cost of operating the sending station at Rugby was $600,000. This must be investigated, cried T. D. Fenby, Liberal member of Parliament, and the service perhaps discontinued. In Manhattan the American Telephone &Telegraph Co. (Bell System), which makes the transatlantic connections from the American side, immediately counterblasted the British plaint. Its operators have been placing seven to eight calls a day for London; the company's profits have exceeded $100 a day. There was little possibility of discontinuing the service, said officials...