Word: telegrapher
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Favorite target of General Franco's Rebel gunners in the Spanish civil war was Telefonica, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s 17-story skyscraper, tallest building in Madrid. Bruised but unbowed by some 186 shells which struck it during the two-and-a-half-year siege, the big steel and reinforced concrete structure served as a home for I. T. & T.'s skeleton staff and their families, occasionally as a bomb shelter for harassed Loyalists. Even heavy bombardments failed to faze its automatic dial system...
Dispatches poured in by cable, wireless telephone and telegraph, from Berlin, London and Paris. Despite censorship, despite official obfuscation, the picture was reason ably complete...
...retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...
...shock. Believing that his entry into the Cabinet would provoke storms of protest from his countless enemies, he was touched when Britons responded to his appointment with loud applause. Even Baron Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...
...terminals of twelve* western roads, in 135 cities, Railway Extension, Inc. opened a train-auto service. Sponsored by the roads (which put up no funds but gave terminal facilities for booths and parking spaces, telephone & telegraph service), Railway Extension was designed to persuade travelers to leave their cars at home, cake their journeys by rail, rent cars for use at their destination...