Word: telegrapher
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...sending the English-admiring Rosenberg on a visit to London. There he was snubbed by the Government leaders, and the leftist press was not very kind to an ideologist who had declared: "When we are in power, the head of a prominent Jew will be stuck on every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames...
...Whether or not they are using this Frenchman, the Axis has plenty of ways to communicate ferry-bomber take-offs from Natal: a Lati radio, a Condor radio, two commercial telegraph companies...
Alarmed M.P.s, still feeling that way, smelled a "sinister" monopoly by a handful of Britain's big publishers-Lord Rothermere (who inherited his father's title last year-Daily Mail, Daily Mirror), Major John Jacob Astor (the Times'), Lord Kemsley (Daily Sketch), Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph & Morning Post) and Lord Beaverbrook (Daily Express)-who already owned 25% of Reuters stock through their provincial papers. The M.P.s warned that such control might destroy Reuters' go-year reputation for trustworthy reporting. They also feared for the good name of BBC, Reuters' biggest customer, feared still more...
...failing to use their rights to buy new debentures, American Telephone & Telegraph stockholders frittered away $1,360,000. This was evident last week when the company announced that $10,839,700 of the $234,000,000 bond issue went unsubscribed. Since it took eight rights to buy each $100 bond, 867,176 rights expired unused. They were worth $1.57 each on the stockmarket...
...include a roof, a back, and two rows of benches, one set about six feet higher than the other. Each bench had a long board running in front of it much in the style of Sever Hall, and on the board there can be placed typewriters, telegraph machines, or pen and ink. No one that I saw was using any journalistic paraphenalia, however, except for a man with a telegraph key up behind me. He seemed to be oblivious of a noisy party on the other end of the line and sat quiet and enjoyed the game with his colleagues...