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Word: telegraphers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towards the CRIMSON's unprecedented publication of a College Student Telephone Directory, its compilers are seizing and digesting the number of each telephone as soon as it is installed in a College Dormitory. Access to these numbers has been furnished through the courtesy of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Numbers Are Accumulating and Plans Are Crystalizing for Crimson Directory | 10/2/1936 | See Source »

When President Roosevelt dramatically "called to life ' the electrical generating equipment of Boulder Dam last fortnight by pressing a gold telegraph key in Washington, he actually started only one small generator for dam site use (TIME, Sept. 21). Next month, however, power will begin to pour into Los Angeles from the monster 115,000 h. p. turbines. Since this is 60-cycle current and since the city has been using 50-cycle current, some 100,000 electric clocks would run 20% fast on Boulder Dam power if left as they now are. Last week the city authorities opened municipal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clocks & Current | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...that it might be restored, in part at least, by the proper type of corporate copy. Good basis for N. W. Ayer's reasoning existed in the fact that the firm has handled the most successful institutional campaign ever run in the U. S., that of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. So well has this campaign worked that by now most people tend to differentiate between A. T. & T.. the Institution, and the Telephone Company, which sends the bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The American Way | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Last week another great world-spanning company, International Telephone & Telegraph, reported a net income of $3,353,813 for the first six months of 1936, no less than $1,691,439 of which came from Spanish units. On the I. T. & T. report appeared the signature of President Lieutenant-Colonel Sosthenes Behn. Skeptical stockholders who knew that Colonel Behn had been in Madrid for two months looking after I. T. & T.'s valuable subsidiary, Spanish National Telephone Co., were informed that Colonel Behn's approval was no fiction. The report had been radioed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gloomy Singer | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...generators of 115,000 h. p. each will not be ready for operation until next month. Only one little 3,500 h. p. generator to supply electricity at the damsite was ready last week. The President paused, raised his index finger and pressed the gold telegraph key that has launched countless ballyhooed enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Third Power, Second Dams | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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