Word: telegrapher
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Western Union's domestic satellite, or "domsat," thus poses a clear threat to the virtual monopoly that American Telephone & Telegraph wields over telecommunications in the U.S.; it offers an alternative to use of A T &T's ground facilities. But the Bell System was ready with a surprising countertmeasure. Last week company officials announced that AT&T would join with General Telephone & Electronics in leasing all the communications systems aboard three other satellites to be sent up in 1975 and 1976. The owner of these satellites is COMSAT General, a wholly-owned domestic subsidiary of COMSAT...
...Unanimously supported resolutions calling on International Telephone and Telegraph and Ford to disclose their direct and indirect political contributions during the past year...
...Project on Corporate Responsibility has called on five corporations--Union Oil, Gulf, Warner-Lambert, Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph--to amend their bylaws to prohibit contributions to political campaigns...
...talk Chandler concentrated on the development of the firm in the period 1850 to World War I. The crucial change in organization, he said, that from entrepreneurial to managerial control of firms, resulted from the invention of the telegraph, which greatly facilitated communication...
Harold S. Geneen. Among the plumbers' unit's activities was spiriting Dita Beard, a lobbyist for International Telephone and Telegraph, away from reporters inquiring into ITT's contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign. The gifts were apparently intended to get an anti-trust suit dropped--as it later was, at Nixon's personal insistence. ITT's President Geneen should probably come to trial for bribery. But just as some of the alleged Watergate consirators should have been tried years ago for other matters--things like ordering illegal mass arrests of political dissenters, as John N. Mitchell did during...