Word: telegrapher
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...four years before the court-ordered breakup of American Telephone | and Telegraph, the Federal Government required the company to separate its telephone-service division from the unit that made and sold equipment. That step was taken to prevent Ma Bell from charging telephone customers for the cost of developing new communications systems...
Although the expedition reported shortly after the discovery that the Titanic was in "museum shape," the videotape shows that the stern is missing, and the Angus' still photos show wreckage, including a giant crane and a ship's telegraph, littering the ocean floor. Why the stern disintegrated remains a mystery. Ballard pointed out that there is no evidence on the ocean floor of any great impact, which suggests that the huge ship settled gently to the bottom. Only two of the Titanic's four mighty smokestacks remain in place; the others collapsed, perhaps when the ship's boilers exploded...
...message was tapped out on an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. It came from the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and was received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle of the war. We have lost many men, but we will not lose the war." The terse communication was signed by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqani, commander of an Afghan partisan group known as Hesbi Islam, or Islamic Party...
...sharp were the accountants' pencils that 26 of the companies got refunds of taxes paid in previous years. The largest of them went to American Telephone and Telegraph. The company earned profits of $1.9 billion last year. But thanks to a combination of investment tax credits and tax deferrals adding up to $1 billion, plus other unusual expenses involved in the breakup of the phone company, AT&T's tax liability was wiped out. In fact, the company got a tax refund of $241.6 million...
...decades the telephone company has been known as a place where hardly anyone ever got fired. My, how Ma Bell has changed. Last week American Telephone and Telegraph announced that between now and the end of 1986 it plans to cut its work force by 24,000, possibly the largest single sloughing in American corporate history...