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 the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
Atlanta felt no more than minor inconvenience, and teachers actually found new hope for teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch...
Mark grew up in Jacksonville, Fla. At 18, he went north, went to work as an accountant for "a boyhood idol," Thomas Edison. At 19, he got a better job with American Telephone & Telegraph, which then owned Manhattan's WEAF...
Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church...
Build a Monopoly. Some 18 million dial phones still worked, but that service would last only until there were mechanical breakdowns. Maintenance workers were among the strikers; so were clerical, accounting and plant workers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s vast Bell Systems. Workers at the subsidiary Western Electric joined the walkout...