Word: telegrapher
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...alive and apparently healthy, the President sighed with relief, smiled, and said: "It's a success.'' That the U.S. had been willing and confident enough to attempt the flight in public view was a fact that could only impress the world. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph, in apt summation of the gamble's payoff: "Technically, the Americans were runners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs. Nobody can doubt that Commander Shepard really...
American Telephone & Telegraph's annual stockholder meeting, held for the first time outside New York City, in Chicago's McCormick Place exposition center, outdrew even the opening game of the White Sox home season. The 18,420 shareholders, the largest number ever assembled for any company's meeting, could hardly have helped being pleased: in the twelve months ending Feb. 28, earnings rose to $1,226,746,000, the greatest profit ever made by any corporation...
...complex new automatic bread-baking machine were startled to see parts of the still picture seem to move. Before their surprised eyes the machine showed how it mixes bread dough, pops it into an oven, and shoots out golden-brown loaves. Shareholders at the giant American Telephone & Telegraph annual meeting in Chicago (see State of Business) were treated to another picture in which Echo satellites seemed to move across the sky bouncing radio waves back to earth in a display that explained the company's proposed transatlantic satellite phone service...
...does on earth. I even worked in that condition. I wrote, jotting down my observations. My handwriting did not change, although the hand did not weigh anything, but I had to hold the notebook. Otherwise it would have floated away. I maintained communications over different channels and tapped the telegraph...
...Damp Crocodile. Rain was falling as the marchers entered London, and the Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple acidly described the march as "a damp crocodile, four-fifths of them teen-agers living on sausages, posing for photographs." But many were sincere pacifists and idealists. Inevitably, too,,some Communists joined the march, and Moscow and Peking radios gave the demonstrations a big play as symbolizing British sentiment...