Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph...
...last week, spoke smartly-tailored Newcomb Carlton, head of Western Union Telegraph Co., to the Interstate Commerce Committee of the U. S. Senate sitting to ponder national policy on communications, nerve of trade, nerve of war. Last month Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. had told the same Senate Committee that a merger of Radio Corp.'s wireless, Western Union's cables and International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless & cables was essential (TIME, Dec. 23). Argued Mr. Young: only by such a monopoly could U. S. communications compete with such monopolistic foreign communication systems as Britain's Cables & Wireless...
According to figures by which Mr. Carlton substantiated his scorn toward the "British menace," Western Union handles 44% of the 51,000 messages sent daily across the Atlantic. Commercial Telegraph...
When merchants fall out with publishers, as Pittsburgh's recently have, both sides lose money. Pittsburgh's press consists chiefly, of the Sun-Telegraph (Hearst), the Press (Scripps-Howard), the Post-Gazette (Paul Block). Because the stores are well organized in the Merchants Association (a coalition of eleven stores), and because the three big newspapers are chainpapers, a fight between them is crucial...
...weeks the Sun-Telegraph was the only journal to carry department store advertising. The Post-Gazette had been boycotted when it demanded that Kaufman's, second largest store advertised in town, retain its daily back page through 1930. Advertisements were withdrawn from the Press because the paper refused to lower its milline rate (rate per line per million circulation...