Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During January and February, 454 dividend increases were announced, v. 226 in the same months a year earlier. Among them: R.H. Macy, Federated Department Stores, Bank of America, Carnation, American Brands, General Foods and Owens-Illinois. The most notable boost was by American Telephone and Telegraph, which has more stockholders (2,923,000) than any other U.S. company. AT&T surprised Wall Street last month by raising its quarterly dividend on each share a dime to 950, double the increase that analysts had expected. A T & T's profits actually declined slightly from 1974 to 1975, but Chairman John...
...celebration of the 100th birthday of the telephone--sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T)--ended yesterday...
...Schlesinger this time took the lead, warning that "America would be 'less tolerant' of a new oil embargo and is reserving military force as one possible response," according to The Daily Telegraph of May 20, 1975. The Arab states once again protested and the by-now usual disclaimers were issued--this time by Ford and Kissinger, the proponents of intervention in the first place...
Michael E. Kinsley '72 said yesterday his book, "Outer Space and Inner Sanctums," shows that although the government gave the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) control of the development of satellite communication in 1962, the company had "not applied the technology" and continued to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on land and underseas cables...
Hardly the sort of licentious fare that would inflame Zulu houseboys to run up stairs and rape madame, as former Minister of Posts and Telegraph Albert Hertzog used to warn. Most of the country's 18 million blacks, in fact, were unable to see the programs because they live in urban slums and rural townships without electricity. One African, who won a television set in a contest last year, was given a portable generator to operate it. After weeks of watching the test transmissions, he decided to sell the TV and keep the generator. Many whites, on the other...