Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only too happy to help her in any way, i. c. look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed off at the speed of six miles a week. At about every other telegraph-post, just as the baby was getting tranquilized, the conductor would step into our car and "holler," "Tickets, please. Change cars for-" we couldn't hear where, but we surrendered a coupon and moved into the baggage-car, that being the only obvious change; and just as the baby was calming...
...Poland by the end of the month. To help pay for his Polish exit visa (about $200 for persons over 16), he sold his antique Polish car for $100. "Some Poles were angry with us and shouted that we should have gotten out earlier," said Heinz H., 60, a telegraph operator for the Polish state railroad. "I told them that if they had let us, we would have gone on foot...
...U.P.W. mans most of the telephone and telegraph services and handles 35 million letters and 500,000 parcels a day. Its members demanded a 15% increase in their pay, which now ranges from $36 to $66 a week. The post office, $72 million in the red last year, offered only 8%. U.P.W. Leader Tom Jackson, a barrel-shaped ex-sailor with a formidable ten-inch mustache, called...
Early Drive. Explaining herself in a long discourse to London's Sunday Telegraph, shortly after her defection, she made clear that there was nothing seriously political about her decision-she had just felt frustrated as an artist, and though she does not say so exactly, she felt early on that she would and could make a name for herself...
...three American firms that control copper mining. Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro together have investments of $617 million tied up in Chilean copper. Allende's move was the latest in a recent series of major expropriation steps in Latin America. In September, Argentina nationalized its telephone and telegraph industry. In October, Bolivia announced that it plans to seize all foreign holdings...