Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer combed Austria by telephone and telegraph for his last hope, Catholic President Wilhelm Miklas. Locating him in the far Alps opening a new mountain railway, he begged the President to stretch the boy's life beyond the allotted three hours. As pious in a crisis as Chancellor Dollfuss, President Miklas went to mass, spent half an hour alone praying for Divine guidance...
...largest wing- area in the U. S. Its new generators can produce enough current to light 100 small homes. Its loudspeaker is 1.600,000 times as loud as the human voice. Its reverberations can kill butterflies, stun birds. Its five operators and pilots converse inside the cabin only by telegraph...
Whatever I had dispatched as a war correspondent passed through the inevitable mill of military or naval censorship, telegraph transmission, copy desk, headline writing, proof reading and final approval or disapproval by some responsible editor at home. Therefore the responsibility for whatever was published as coming from me was divided among several persons...
...made it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a member of a nation-wide closed shop. Last week, Nazi control of the Press went one step further when it was announced that Germany's two biggest news services, the Telegraphen-Union and Wolff's Telegraph Bureau, had merged because of ''recent economic developments in the German Press...
...More Backlog. Only a few U. S. corporations ever achieve the distinction of having their published statistics widely accepted as fundamental business barometers. American Telephone & Telegraph has its figures on installations. General Motors has its sales to consumers. And until last week U. S. Steel had its monthly figures on unfilled orders. Then Steel's Chairman Myron Charles Taylor announced that the NRA had put an end to this historic index. Henceforth Steel will publish figures only on tonnage actually shipped...