Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death Takes a Holiday. In Alton, Ill. (pop-33,000), citizens pulled themselves together, had nary a death while the Evening Telegraph's obituary writer took a week's vacation...
...bigwigs crowded around a table in the glittering Salon Blanco. The Argentine Cabinet was there, along with U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith and President Juan Domingo Peron. But the star of the show was a private U.S. citizen with an outlandish name, Sosthenes Behn, razor-sharp president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. For the third time in five years, he was giving U.S. businessmen a lesson on how to liquidate foreign investments at a profit...
When the National War Labor Board granted Western Union Telegraph Co. employes a 21% wage raise last year, the company went deep into the red. That made no difference to WLB. So Western Union appealed to the Federal Communications Commission, which granted a 10% overall boost in rates for one year to help Western Union...
...biggest new-money corporate financing in history floored the stock-market last week for a count of nine. On Wednesday, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced it planned to issue $351 million in debentures and increase its authorized capital stock from 25 million to 35 million shares. No sooner had word reached the Street than A. T. &T. stock took a dive...
...grass, Pilot Marsh took aboard some 50 of the wounded survivors, ordered his engineer to get up a head of steam, drove his vessel from the mouth of the Big Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians June 25. . . . He [and] every officer and man in five companies were killed...