Word: telegrapher
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Death Takes a Holiday. In Alton, Ill. (pop-33,000), citizens pulled themselves together, had nary a death while the Evening Telegraph's obituary writer took a week's vacation...
Said London's conservative Daily Telegraph editorially (after quoting Wallace on the necessity of convincing Russia that the Americans are not out to save the British Empire): "Bees in bonnets have seldom buzzed louder. To the British reader, who may well be bewildered at such language from a minister of the power with which we have the closest relations at the present time, it is worth explaining that Mr. Wallace is notoriously emotional and notoriously independent of many of his colleagues...
...bigwigs crowded around a table in the glittering Salon Blanco. The Argentine Cabinet was there, along with U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith and President Juan Domingo Peron. But the star of the show was a private U.S. citizen with an outlandish name, Sosthenes Behn, razor-sharp president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. For the third time in five years, he was giving U.S. businessmen a lesson on how to liquidate foreign investments at a profit...
When the National War Labor Board granted Western Union Telegraph Co. employes a 21% wage raise last year, the company went deep into the red. That made no difference to WLB. So Western Union appealed to the Federal Communications Commission, which granted a 10% overall boost in rates for one year to help Western Union...
...biggest new-money corporate financing in history floored the stock-market last week for a count of nine. On Wednesday, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced it planned to issue $351 million in debentures and increase its authorized capital stock from 25 million to 35 million shares. No sooner had word reached the Street than A. T. &T. stock took a dive...