Word: telegrapher
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...before the invasion's jump-off, a special flight of Liberators wheeled in over Taormina and dumped heavy demolition and incendiary bombs on the San Domenico hotel, which Allied intelligence had discovered to be the Axis military headquarters. The hotel and the city's nearby telephone and telegraph building were reduced to heaps of smoking rubble, paralyzing the nerve center of the island's defense organization at least temporarily...
...Equality with other nations in international radio, telegraph and telephone...
...which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...
...TIME presents in its issue of May 3, 1943, a commentary on the operations of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp...
...took more than ten years for Congress to exempt U.S. telegraph service from the provisions of the anti-trust laws so that Western Union and Postal Telegraph could merge (TIME, March 8). After that it took less than ten weeks for the two companies to work out the details of a combination to end useless duplication in a business where competition is costly and unproductive. The agreement announced last week: Western Union Telegraph Co. will buy out Postal, through an exchange of stock. Now all that needs to be done to make the merger a fact is for stockholders...