Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...THORNBURGH Assistant Vice President International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. New York City After he left Madrid, Colonel Behn went...
...from the fact that the Mellons are big Pennsy stockholders (young Richard Mellon is a Pennsy director), the Mellons have another good reason to keep on the best terms with as many railroads as possible: they are heavily interested in National Lumber & Creosoting Co., which treats railroad ties and telegraph poles. For a strategic reason for the deal, it was necessary only to look at the Virginian's traffic, which is 90% bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads, Va. is the shortest, easiest...
...exchange of machine gun fire, there lay dead 50 Radicals, 50 Whites. With grim determination Generalissimo Franco spat out orders that White officers who could not control their men were to be shot. Meantime White bombers winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation for Generalissimo Franco's bombing of Madrid on Christmas Day, Red operatives secretly installed a series of bombs in a roadbed near Talavera de la Reina, blew up a 23-car train of White troops, killing hundreds...
...constabulary officer, Lieutenant Pedro Dionisio, raced the flood to his headquarters at Echagüe and telegraphed before the wires went down that there were already 20 known dead in the village of Cagayan. He added: "No reports received from the towns and barrios around Ilagan, as they are submerged." The postmaster at Alcala succeeded in reporting that the river was six feet over the tops of the telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming...
Sian, whence news of the kidnapping was flashed, is almost as remote and centrally located in China as though President Roosevelt were kidnapped among the Rocky Mountains. The kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang, sent out over his military telegraph lines the only account of how his soldiers had detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China...