Word: telegrapher
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...find them in this rabble, this canaille, These sans-culottes in shirtsleeves, sans, aussi, The least investiture of quality. Off the Long Island Rail Road cars they swarm With Morning Telegraph or Racing Form And A rmstrong's Scratch Sheet, pouring towards the gates Beside which other literature awaits As benefice, whose fain purveyors call In accents more than audible by all, "Jack's Little Green Card!", "docker Lawton!!", "Hey, Got that Daily Double again today!!!" Don't trust these men, no matter how sincere Solicitude may cause them to appear...
...merger to shareholders. In an exchange of stock worth $350 million, Western Union will become a part of nine-year-old Computer Sciences. Jones pointed out that his company and Western Union had been working with each other for four years developing ways to transmit computer read-outs over telegraph circuits. As a result, he said, they share "an awareness of what a combination of the two companies could achieve...
Chairman Harold S. Geneen describes his $2.8-billion International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. as a "unified-management, multiproduct company." On that principle, in 48 major acquisitions in the last nine years, ITT has acquired a hotel chain (Sheraton), a car-rental company (Avis), a book publisher (Bobbs-Merrill), a home-builder (Levitt & Sons, Inc.), a paper and chemical company (Rayonier, Inc.) and assorted other ventures. Something Geneen still does not have is a consumer foods company. Last week he moved to remedy that deficiency by announcing that ITT, in an exchange of stock valued at $280 million, will soon acquire Continental...
...five different states in a single day. Reporters trying to keep up with them can get lost in a tangle of datelines. "Did he say that in Reno or Redwood City? Did he really make a speech in Manhattan, Kansas?" Files often get delayed in small-town telegraph offices...
...unsightly scenes-they also come in for some occasional criticism. San Francisco's proposed $100 million International Market Center, a complex that would be built over several of the city's streets, is opposed by some San Franciscans who fear that it would obscure their view of Telegraph Hill. Another kind of problem is illustrated by four Manhattan apartment buildings constructed over an approach to the George Washington Bridge: lower-floor occupants have been bothered by fumes and noise from the traffic below...