Word: telegrapher
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...getting armament built-remains under big, silver-topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved up to OPM's production chief...
They finally got a train to take them to Corinth on their way to Athens and, they hoped, a telegraph office. By this time the Germans held the other side of the Gulf and Nazi planes had only a short hop to strafe the railroad on the other side. Their train, barnacled with soldiers on roof and sides, was raked again & again with machine-gun bullets. Three out of four of the reporters who were riding together were wounded, one seriously. St. John says he did not know that he had been shot through the thigh until he finally reached...
Since Cyrus Curtis' death (in 1933) main Ledger problem has been to support the paper in the style to which he had accustomed it. He had fed it by buying up other Philadelphia papers (the Evening Telegraph, Press, North American) for it to devour. His heirs found the meat bill was too costly. In 1933 Stepson-in-law John C. Martin sold the New York Post (for which Curtis had paid $1,620,000 in 1923) to J. David Stern. Two years later the Philadelphia Inquirer (cost, in 1930: $18,000,000) was sold to Moe Annenberg, famed...
More than 200 Norwegians accompanied the raiders back to England, there to join the Royal Norwegian Government-in-Exile. Those remaining behind prepared stolidly for the reprisals sure to come-in their zeal to assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...
...accumulated during the past 116 years, picked some 300 and this week put on a retrospective exhibition. Dignified portraits of N.A.s, received as initiation fees, ornamented the museum's classical walls, went back as far as Portraitist Samuel F. B. Morse, who invented the telegraph in the interim between two terms as the Academy's president...