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...works, but on top of this the Civil War was going strong and Moseby's raiders sent a few of the boys to help the Redskins and pick up a little extra ready cash. However, with Robert Young and Randolph Scott holding the fort for Don't Write Telegraph, they couldn't lose. Besides, W.U. had, as a further inspiration a young lady by the name of Virginia Gilmore, who will be as pleasant a surprise to you, as she was to the Men of the West (where...
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s 1940 earnings were highest in its history: $188,204,000 ($10.07 a share on its blue-chip stock), up 4.5% from 1937's record $179,834,815, up 13.3% from...
...worst hit was International Telephone and Telegraph Co., caught off side in Rumania, Norway, France, etc. In 1930 I. T. & T.'s common sold for 77⅜, last week for 2⅞. With $108,105,000 of its $503,674,000 assets invested in Europe, I. T. & T. netted $7,039,000 in 1938. By 1940's first half this net was cut to a loss of $126,977 (before any provision for war losses on European properties). Before this report came out, I. T. & T.'s lanky Sosthenes Behn started to save...
...from the late Adolph Simon Ochs (publisher of the New York Times) in 1913. He paid $2,000,000, proceeded to spend hundreds of thousands more for new equipment. To keep the Ledger presses busy he brought out an evening edition in 1914. He acquired Philadelphia's evening Telegraph, Press, North American, merged them all with the Public Ledger. In 1924 he bought the New York evening Post. In 1930 he reputedly paid $15.000,000 for the Philadelphia Inquirer, kept it going as a competitor of the morning Ledger...
Britain's press lords Beaverbrook (Daily Express), Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Astor (London Times), Southwood (Daily Herald), as well as Poet John Masefield and Information Minister Duff Cooper, ex-Prime Minister Baldwin, last week sent birthday congratulations to Britain's oldest newspaper, Berrow's Worcester Journal, founded in 1690 when William and Mary reigned in Merry England...