Word: telegrapher
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...whole, the British business community felt that the budget could have been worse ("Insidious but less drastic than feared," said the Daily Telegraph), and as a result the London Stock Exchange registered relief with a two-day rise. But the great danger in Labor's stopgap budget is that the deflationary tax increases might seriously reduce incentives in the British economy...
...four blocks, is being leveled and replaced by apartment houses, office buildings, a hospital, a medical building, garages, a Japanese Cultural and Trade Center and a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a 299-unit, successfully integrated cooperative. But more conspicuous is the Golden Gateway project at the foot of Telegraph Hill. On the site of the fragrant old Central Market, which was moved, like Philadelphia's, to more efficient, truck-oriented quarters far from the center of town, three high-rise apartment houses have gone up with a cluster of little blue-roofed town houses in between. Both the houses...
...Irishman who organized the island's labor unions in the turbulent 1930s, the government has an ambitious, five-year plan for new schools, hospitals, roads and housing. Shrewd tax benefits have attracted foreign companies to Jamaica -Esso has opened an $18 million refinery, Sterling Drug and International Telephone & Telegraph are building plants. Tourism is thriving, will probably hit about 230,000 people this year. But last year's overall economic growth rate fell short of the plan's intended 5% annual gain, and there are other worries...
...interior decoration and light on its technology. The ship is lined, they said, with "a snow-white, soft, spongelike synthetic fabric." The three seats are close together in a row. The single instrument panel has a clock, a globe showing the spaceship's position, a radio, a telegraph key and many switches and buttons...
...Francisco newspapers last week introduced "Miss Lizbeth Rotherwick of Telegraph Hill. Has Hester Bateman silver. Collects old Spode. Enjoys pullovers by Pringle. And now she has a special checking account at the Chartered Bank of London." The mythical miss sounds somewhat less than smashing, but the point of the ads was that she did not have to cross a continent and an ocean to open a checking account at Chartered: the London bank recently opened a San Francisco subsidiary. Aware that the U.S. money market can be a happy hunting ground, foreign banks are setting up branches...