Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combat not only the overflow from the Mississippi river but floods from five rivers which flow across the State and empty into the Mississippi. For four days the city of Little Rock, of over 100,000 inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous city of 10,000 people, the water rose to a height of fifteen feet. Those with means were able to retreat to other places...
...skyscraper should have a distinguished portrait in it. Clarence H. Mackay, President of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., decided Cardinal Hayes was fit subject for such a portrait, to be hung in the new Knights of Columbus club hotel, N. Y. And Sir John Lavery of London, thought Mr. Mackay, was a fit artist. Last week the commission was announced...
...Telegraph wires are supposedly high in the air, but in many cases the lower stands of wire either appeared to be resting on the water or were entirely out of sight...
...Noros, 77, last survivor of the ill-fated 1879 expedition in search of the northwest passage to the north pole; led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington DeLong; in Providence, R. I. Died. Thomas Dixon Lockwood, 78, inventor of the automatic telephone call, retired official of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; at Melrose, Mass...
Said Clarence H. Mackay (Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cables) last week, as footnote to his company's survey of Florida: "Business conditions in the state are improving rapidly and recovery from the disaster of a year ago should be complete by the end of 1927. . . . Farmers are busy. Those who became salesmen or cut down their orange groves to make subdivisions of their farms have gone back to cultivation and are producing commodities. A general feeling pervades the state that many northern banks are not informed, are pessimistic...