Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writes in the "New York Times," "For prolongation such a career has few, if any, parallels in the world, and none, I think, in the United States. President Eliot has witnessed the development of railways, of steamships, of ironclad, of submarines, of airplanes, of breech-loading guns, of the telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From...
...Youngstown, a controversy arose at the "copy" desk of the Vindicator, a newspaper. Did the Prime Minister of Great Britain spell his name with a "D" or a "d"? The telegraph editor took typewriter and paper, and sent a letter across...
Those who expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923. The annual report of the Company shows net income of $81,692,181 after charges and federal taxes, or $11.35 a share on the $719,964,600 average amount of stock outstanding in 1923. This compares with net income of $66,170,428 or $11.14 a-share on the $594,009,500 average amount of stock the year before. Current surplus last year was $15,417,793, against...
Last week the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. declared its intention to bring suit to protect its patents ; the A. T. & T. operates the station WEAF, in Manhattan, and brought suit against station WHN, operated by Loew's State Theatre...
...results of the Harvard-Yale Freshman basketball game played Tuesday night at New Haven, which Yale won 29-19, never reached the CRIMSON office until yesterday morning. The press dispatch was delayed more than five hours by the severity of the storm which crippled telegraph communication throughout New England...