Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jews are a minority in Israel, but there are enough that the Chief Rabbis can keep hotels, restaurants, airlines and ships kosher by threatening to place them off-limits. The choice of Unterman and Nissim means that many of the religious strictures so galling to nonobservant Jews will continue. Telegraph service is curtailed on the Sabbath (Saturday) and on religious holidays, and in most cities and towns there is no public transportation. Except for a few Christian Arab areas, pork products are not for sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights...
Pleasant Surprise. Businessmen everywhere are spending; American Telephone & Telegraph alone will invest more than $3 billion in plant and equipment in 1964. Many economic experts believe that capital budgets will rise more than the anticipated 10% this year-largely because they expect that the tax cut will inspire the U.S. public to spend more. The cuts will average out to $133 a year for each wage earner. It is still too soon to measure how much of his saving the consumer will spend, but early signs are hopeful...
Machines are becoming almost as communicative as people-to the delight of big communications companies. Computers chatter over great distances, exchanging complex data in whirring tones, and telegraph and teletype clatter with increasing volume across the oceans. Such conversations between machines offer the communications companies their most exciting prospects for the future. Thus it was doubly disappointing to American Telephone and Telegraph that the U.S. Government last week shut it out of most of this business on the busy transatlantic circuits...
More important, the FCC gave this advantage to A.T. & T.'s chief rivals- RCA, Western Union International and International Telephone and Telegraph. The FCC ruled that these competitors may go into transatlantic voice communication, offer a combined telephone-teletype service. They will thus break A.T. & T.'s monopoly on transatlantic phone calls. Said an FCC aide about the fortunate three: "They're the little boys, so they deserve the breaks...
...began shortly after midnight on January 20 when the troops of the Tanganyika (formerly King's African) Rifles First Battalion seized the arms at Colito Barracks and arrested their European officers and NCOs. Soldiers then proceeded to surround the State House and to take over the radio station, airport, telegraph office, and other key points throughout the city. Several ministers were arrested before dawn, but President Nyerere and Vice President Rashidi Kawawa escaped...