Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...research laboratories, had just received the Institute's Edison Medal for his "contributions to the incandescent electric lighting and x-ray arts" by his development of ductile tungsten for bulb filaments and x-ray targets. At the same ceremony John Joseph Carty of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had received the John Fritz Medal for his "development of research in the telephone...
...press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking Walter Winchell, columnist to the pornoGraphic, gumchewers' sheetlet, alone had the grace, in this second and even less justified burst of free advertising, to praise that rakish, lean and sporting sheet, the New York Telegraph; its reporter had entirely disregarded the melodramatic antics of poor Mlle. Roseray...
...place, the people who make Palm Beach what it is were determined to have their own mayor. Names like Stotesbury, Pillsbury, Biddle, Chadbourne, Phipps, Replogle, Heckscher, Seligman, Vanderbilt were attached to mayoral campaign literature for Major Barclay Harding Warburton, handsome society oldster who used to publish the Evening Telegraph in Philadelphia and now conducts the Palm Beach branch of E. F. Hutton & Co. (stocks, bonds...
...soon as the post, telephone and telegraph could carry the information of the deposits in big U. S. banks as of the end of the year, the American Banker compiled and published the figures. They revealed that the banks had grown bigger by $1,407,755,877. On Dec. 31, 1926 their deposits had been $16,794,203,008. One year later they were $18,191,958,885. Significant was the fact that San Francisco (Golden Gate City) had the fourth largest bank, the Bank of Italy. Manhattan, of course, had the leaders...
...solar cyclone, of the same nature as those which occur in the United States, but characterized by terrific electrical charges. These bodies are set in rotation during a storm, forming a veritable dynamo. The powerful magnetic field thus developed extends out into space and often disturbs radio, cable, and telegraph lines of the earth. Within recent years it has become possible to actually measure the field strength of these solar storms by means of a careful analysis of the spectrum of the sun spots...