Word: telegrapher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weapons and tools - the rifles and pistols, the screws and wrenches, the shovels and picks - had a new uniformity, thanks to the so-called American System of Manufacturing (the system of interchangeable parts, sometimes called the Uniformity System). The telegraph and the power press and the mass-circulating newspaper brought the same information and the same images to people thousands of miles apart. Human experience for millions became more instantaneously similar than had ever been imagined possible...
...most successful month in Wall Street history (see box). By April, growth figures were in for the first quarter, and they seemed almost too good to believe. Discounted for inflation, G.N.P. rose at a 9.2% clip, one of the biggest quarterly spurts on record. Corporate profits soared; American Telephone & Telegraph eventually became the first U.S. corporation ever to earn more than $1 billion in a three-month period. Some economists began worrying about an inflationary overheating of business...
...take over when the chairman reached retirement age of 65. But when that date finally arrived in 1966, Paley announced that he would not step down after all; it was Stanton who retired at 65. His successor was Charles T. Ireland, a financial expert hired away from International Telephone & Telegraph in 1971 to guide an ambitious acquisitions program. When Ireland died of a heart attack the next year, another outsider with financial savvy was brought in: Arthur Taylor, then a 37-year-old whiz kid from International Paper...
...Bell has never kept secret its desire to monopolize U.S. telephone service. Arguing that competition fostered waste, duplication and higher phone rates, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1908 launched an ad campaign with the theme "One system, one policy, universal service...
Corrigan and Williams, who plan to take their campaign throughout Northern Ireland, have also received death threats and obscene letters branding them "touts" (informers). "We will not be deterred by the hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade," huffed one IRA officer. The Protestant Telegraph, the Rev. Ian Paisley's fanatically Loyalist newspaper, also denounced the women's peace movement as "spurious" and "priest-inspired." After a gang of youngsters tried to set fire to her house, Williams sent her two children into hiding with friends...