Word: telegrapher
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Tory Albert Burleigh had finally had it. From his home outside London he sent the Sydney (Australia) Daily Telegraph the following classified...
Last week workmen were tightening bolts on the last of 107 steel and concrete towers, spaced approximately 30 miles apart, that will carry television from coast to coast. Started three years ago by American Telephone & Telegraph, the $40 million New York-to-San Francisco microwave relay project* will be fully completed next month-just in time to carry this year's World Series games to the biggest audience in baseball's history...
...class, yearbook of Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) the picture of Hal Stephens Dumas (a graduate at 18) appeared with the caption: "He will be president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co." Last week Hal Dumas, 58, became the next best thing. He was made executive vice president of the $11.5 billion company, one notch below President Cleo F. Craig (TIME, July...
Wirepulling. In Hong Kong, the Great Northern Telegraph Co. offered an $800 reward for information on thieves who had stolen 3.36 miles of its cable from the bottom of the China...
...quite so dramatic and revealing as Sarnoff's. Owen D. Young said that Sarnoff had lived "the most amazing romance of its kind on record." Horatio Alger himself could hardly have done it in one book; he would have needed Adrift in New York, Nelson the Newsboy, The Telegraph Boy and Joe's Luck or Always Wide Awake...