Word: telegrapher
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...founded prosperous Westvaco Chlorine Products Corp., also owned Warner Bros. Co. (corsets). His father came of an old Icelandic family that settled in Pennsylvania, originally had a strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn, with two chemists to help. He ended up with the formula for Skol...
...august London Times and ultra-conservative Daily Telegraph wrote no editorials on the Viceroy's address. But other British newspapers did comment, and their attitude had more significance for the future than Linlithgow's righteous words...
...Pacelli Prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's (guardian of Vatican buildings), Mussolini banned the Catholic Boy Scouts and started to wipe out Catholic Action in Italy. The Pope wrote an encyclical (Non abbiamo bisogno) attacking the Fascist action, but since the Fascists controlled all the telegraph lines and cables to the outside world, Mussolini was in a position to read and reply to the encyclical before the world read...
...wave radio station ("for research and propaganda"), a new electric powerhouse, a fleet of modern automobiles (gifts of the manufacturers) to replace the old carriages, electric elevators, 800 telephones (the Pope's telephone is solid gold stamped with the Papal Arms and the trade-mark of International Telephone & Telegraph Co.), a telephoto apparatus, an electric device to replace the bell ringers at St. Peter's. "The fabric of St. Peter's," said a Catholic commentator, "became as modern as the fabric of New York...
...Skin a Cat. In Atlantic City, Valedictorian Marvin Smith, prevented by laryngitis from speaking his piece to the Coast Guard radio school's graduating class, set up a telegraph ticker on the platform, delivered his message by Morse code...