Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...Joseph Henry, first a teacher in a boys' school, then professor of physics at Princeton, constructed the first real electromagnet, the first telegraph and printing telegraph, had a wireless set with which his family used to call him from the laboratory to his meals, and most important of all, discovered, jointly with Faraday, the laws of electromagnetic induction which underlie all electric power machinery. And when urged by his friends to press his claims for patent rights he answered that his scientific work was too important to be hampered by attending to such trivial matters...
...motionless unmarketed Ford has helped their heyday. Characteristic was their method of passing them on to stockholders. "Extras" (bonuses), said the directors' statement, will be continued. The policy is contrary to that of some other mammoth U. S. corporations. Recently Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., frowned on "melons" (TIME, Oct. 31). "Put the extra money back into the business for expansion and development," was his explanation to his 420,000 disappointed stockholders...
...errors had ever reached the Herald Tribune pages. Those acquainted with the facts of newspaper life mourned for a reckless correspondent in Jackson, Mich., who had collected false facts at the wrong* Mrs. Weed's funeral and had wired them on as truth; mourned also for a telegraph editor who had sent the story to a busy copy desk without verification; mourned too for a night managing editor whose function it is (no matter what the shortcomings of his underlings) to edit and put out a perfect paper...
...enable such voiceless people to speak, Dr. Mackenty, at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Manhattan, early in 1925 displayed a device made for him by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber...