Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While businessmen hoped this might mark a delayed autumn movement of goods, their main attention last week was devoted to scanning nine-month earnings reports. American Telephone & Telegraph showed $128,465,000 against $123,450,000 in the same period last year. This was the most the company has ever earned for three quarters, but the showing was made possible only by the first half results. The third quarter earnings were $39,346,000 against $41.653.000 last year and came to $2.12 a share against a $2.25 dividend requirement...
...famed Mitsui being No. 1. When she married Diplomat Shidehara he was no baron though he belonged to a Samurai (feudal sword bearer) family. In the past 30 years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft of Japan...
Professor Charles Gray Shaw of New York University last week wrinkled the world's face with doubt of its intelligence and charged newspapers with big telegraph bills. Professor Shaw stated...
...addition to protesting Laborites and politicians (see p. 13), many a voice was heard condemning the move, hoping it would be halted. Mr. Gifford did not elaborate his reasons for opposing, and special factors may prejudice Mr. Gifford's case (he is National Relief Director; American Telephone & Telegraph was earning its dividend; A. T. & T.'s wages are indirectly fixed by public service commissions; political goodwill is essential to A. T. & T.). But the prime argument against wage reduction is that it lowers the purchasing power of the people, may be a boomerang to business...
...director of Ivar Kreuger's International Match Corp. for which his house is the U. S. banker. This year he was given the Royal Order of Commander of the North Star by the King of Sweden. His directorates also include Chase National Bank, International Telephone & Telegraph, Nash Motors Co., Otis Elevator Co., Shell Union Oil Corp., Vanadium Corp. One result of the Lee, Higginson-Transamerica affiliation will probably be co-operation between Transamerica's General Telephone & Electric Corp. and the International-Ericsson group...