Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours before the tax cut was signed into law, American Telephone & Telegraph Chairman Frederick R. Kappel received a long-distance call from one of his best customers: Lyndon Johnson. How, asked the President, would the measure affect A.T. & T.'s plans? As a direct result of the cut, said Kappel, A.T. & T. would add another $100 million onto its record 1964 budget for capital spending, originally set at $3.25 billion...
...Dispela Man Humbug." So eager were the natives to learn about democracy that word filtered over the bush telegraph that no electoral patrols would be attacked, "even with sticks and stones." In 12,000 villages and thousands of isolated hamlets, the teams used films to teach the natives voting techniques. To offset tribal boredom, lectures were interspersed with tape recordings of local "sing-sing" music. But presentations occasionally flopped. In one back-country village, natives complained that the voter shown on one of the election drawings was unknown to them. "Dispela man humbug mi no lookin dispela man wantain bepo...
...Washington for its headquarters-where its president's office is the master bedroom. Comsat is unique in more important respects: it is a privately owned, Governmentsheltered monopoly that hopes to become a billion-dollar corporation. Its aim: to girdle the world with communications satellites capable of relaying telephone, telegraph, TV and facsimile signals between practically any two points on earth...
...thin the line might get. On the troubled island of Cyprus, in beleaguered Aden, and within the threatened Malaysian Federation, in recent weeks the line seemed stretched to the breaking point. Indeed, alarmed at the frequency with which British troops are dispatched to overseas trouble spots, the London Daily Telegraph harrumphed: "Officers who hold the Queen's Commission cannot be air-freighted without ceremony from their lawful appointments. British battalions cannot be whistled about like errand boys...
General Motors reported the highest earnings-$1.6 billion-ever made by any corporation, regaining the crown briefly held by American Telephone & Telegraph. Standard of New Jersey became the world's first oil company ever to earn more than $1 billion in a single year. Giant IBM and DuPont both set new earnings records. Hardly any segment of the economy failed to gain. Most of the once ailing railroads made healthy profits, and the airlines, which only two years ago were in a financial tailspin, climbed to new heights of profit. TWA turned a $5,700,000 loss...