Word: telegrapher
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...architects, engineers and shipping-line executives. His classroom itself was a ship, with the Skipper forward on his bridge, pounding the deck until class was over and it was time for all hands to go ashore. Last week, at 64, the Skipper announced that he would soon set the telegraph for good at "Finished Engines," and retire. Without him, Yale thought, it would give no more courses in naval architecture and marine engineering...
Skilled Hand. Mr. Ellis is Canada's closest approach to an official executioner. Legally, when a death sentence has been passed, the execution is the job of the county sheriff, but most sheriffs prefer the help of a skilled hand. They telegraph to the sheriff of York County, Ont., one of the few Canadians who knows Ellis' real name. A reservation is made for his services and Hangman Ellis slips quietly into the appointed town a day before the hanging is to take place...
...dining room. As boss of the world's biggest life insurance company, he had some impressive figures to give them. In 1949, said Lincoln, Metropolitan had boosted its assets 6% to a mammoth $9.7 billion. It had not yet overtaken the world's biggest corporation-American Telephone & Telegraph, whose assets total $10.8 billion-but it was on its way. In 1950's first two months, said Lincoln proudly, Metropolitan had sold more group insurance than in the entire previous year. A big reason: it had just signed a contract with Bethlehem Steel Corp. for a $325 million...
...Farm Equipment Workers already purged (TIME, Nov. 14), Murray had only a few more corners to clean: Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union, the Marine Cooks' & Stewards', the Fishermen, the Fur and Leather Workers, the Furniture Workers, and the little but strategic American Communications Association (telegraph and radiomen...
Among them stood an American, handsome Robert Vogeler, 38, a graduate of Annapolis and M.I.T. He had come to Hungary in 1948 as U.S. representative of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Friends in Budapest and back home knew him as a skilled sportsman (fencer, marksman, skier, golfer) and a gay companion. One day last November...