Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was gratifying news for President Hernán Siles Zuazo, who has backed the program with everything from a hunger strike to threats to resign, and for George Jackson Eder, an old Latin America hand who left International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to supervise Bolivia's National Monetary Stabilization Council. But Juan Lechin, executive secretary of the powerful workers' confederation, was looking out for labor and labor alone. At the confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist...
Died. Sosthenes Behn, 75, co-founder (1920) and longtime chairman of the board of International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS...
...businessman was more global-minded than Sosthenes Behn, who created the world web of $760 million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...
...almost entirely abroad, the Behns first startled financiers in 1924 by winning a concession to manage and modernize Spain's sputtering national telephone system, went on to set up 33 international manufacturing and research facilities. They were big enough by 1928 to acquire the Mackay companies, including Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. (eventually merged with Western Union). Until 1930, Sosthenes' tireless negotiating made I.T. & T. grow throughout the world, spread the company into Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Rumania...
TRANS-OCEAN TV will go from Florida to Cuba. FCC okayed American Telephone & Telegraph Co. plan to send U.S. programs to Cuba via "scatter propagation" system, which deflects TV waves off particles high in atmosphere, transmits them over horizon without relays...