Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Nickelsdorf, they grabbed interviews with escaping travelers from Hungary, and pleaded with Hungarian border guards to let them in. In Budapest all but one of the handful of Western correspondents had to rely on Westerners heading for the Austrian border to carry their copy out; telephones, cables and telegraph lines were cut. The exception: the London Daily Mail's Noel Barber, who had a car, enabling him to commute regularly to the border, where he worked over his copy in the Hungarian customhouse until another Mailman arrived from Vienna to rush it off for transmission. He was gleeful...
...news conference, a spokesman for the department reported a new blackout of all telephone and telegraph contact with the American Legation in the revolt-torn capital of Budapest...
...criticism, said the Laborite Daily Herald, "is a scathing indictment and a challenge. Mr. Rogers knows British industry, and if it is anything like as bad as he says, it is a poor outlook unless we waken up soon." "Our declining share in the world market," the Conservative Daily Telegraph added, "is warning enough against treating what he said as though we could learn nothing from...
...Arthur Burton Goetze (pronounced gets), 55, became president of Western Electric, succeeding Frederick R. Kappel, American Telephone & Telegraph's new president (TIME, Oct. 1). Chicago-born Goetze joined Western Electric in 1917 as a draftsman, took night courses in electrical engineering. By 1952 he moved up to vice president of Western Electric, after a three-year stint as vice president with the Chesapeake & Potomac and the Ohio Bell Telephone companies. CJ Orville Simpson Carpenter, 57, was elected president of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., one of the biggest U.S. natural-gas pipeline companies (gross annual revenue...
...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. quietly reshuffled its top command last week. After five years as president, Cleo F. Craig, 63, moved out of the operating slot and up to chairman of the board well before the mandatory retirement age of 65 in order to give his successor a two-year break-in period. A.T & T.'s new chief executive: President Frederick R. Kappel (rhymes with apple), 54, a 32-year man at A.T. & T., who has been head of the company's manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, since...