Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporations in the world. Others: American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads, U. S. Steel Corporation, National City Bank...
Industries never tire of reciting their greatness. Occasionally the recital is an astonishing reminder of the size and complexity of social and industrial organization. Last week, for example, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. issued a booklet of statistics on its busi- ness-just figures-but large ones: ¶ 20.5 billion telephone conversations a year in the U. S. ¶ 24.5 million telephones in use. ¶ 67.8 million miles of telephone wire strung from pole to pole. ¶ 63% of the world's telephones...
...body of his only son from a creek near Kinderhook yesterday; but even while he was broken by the greatest sorrow of his life, he realized that the finding of the boy's body was news and that his paper should have it. So he went to the telegraph office and wrote the story for what it was worth as news, wrote it as calmly and as dispassionately as if the boy had been a stranger instead of flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood...
...President also signed a bill creating a Department of Communications, which henceforth is to be in charge of Cuban postal and telegraph services...
According to the provisions of the parliamentary act under which the road was built, it may not be broken up by electric, gas or water companies, or the post office authorities for underground telegraph and telephone cables...