Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generals James G. Harbord & John J. Carty (president of the Radio Corporation of America and vice-president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., respectively), last week recommended communication by a universal language, for the sake of world peace and world efficiency. General Harbord showed that embarrassment and hesitancy between individuals of different nationalities would be reduced. General Carty said that 750,000 of the total world population 1,748,000,000 now knows and uses Esperanto...
Companies. As everyone knows, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (including Newcomb Carlton's Western Union) is the greatest domestic communication system in the U. S. At its head is that young super-executive, President Walter Sherman Gifford. As everyone also knows, the second greatest domestic system is the Mackay-owned Postal Telegraph, which has no telephones...
...Jewish Telegraph Agency alarmed from Jerusalem: "A force led by Sheik Ed Dowilsh with 1,400 camels is marching toward Irak. . . . Twenty-two [British] airplanes and seven tanks have been despatched to the frontier of Transjordania to protect the territory from . . . Ibn Saud...
Largest assets do not necessarily involve largest earnings, however. The General Motors Corporation reported for 1927 the largest peacetime earnings in the history of industry, $235,104,826. American Telephone & Telegraph, with larger assets than General Motors, earned...
...first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...