Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
...native of Michigan who had renounced her U.S. citizenship. She had done secretarial work for Visiting Reporters Edgar Snow and Maurice Hindus, and for the U.S. Embassy. For two years she worked part-time for Robert Magidoff, 42, correspondent for McGraw-Hill, Britain's Exchange Telegraph news agency...
...Clear. Western Union Telegraph Co., in the red so deeply a year ago that some suggested that the Government take over, staged a remarkable comeback. For 1947, it reported $11,000,000 profit-enough to pay a $1-a-share dividend. The reasons: new rates on Government traffic and windfall business during the telephone strike...
...hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
Cripps called his new gadget a "special once-for-all levy." But the conservative Daily Telegraph assailed it as "class legislation of the worst type. ... A budget professedly designed to stimulate incentive studiously ignores the risk-taker." Indignant investors were reminded that when Sir Robert Peel proposed an income tax in 1842 he had said: "I think it just to limit the duration to three years...