Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth's crust moved, opened a thousand cracks and fissures throughout the great plain of Alexandropol (now Leninakan). Whirling seething earth-masses hurtled and reeled. With a roar like that of thunder, many of the stone buildings of Leninakan crashed in ruins. All electric, gas, telephone and telegraph equipment were thrown out of commission. When communication was restored it was learned that the Near East Relief buildings at Leninakan still stand. and that neither the 9,000 orphans sheltered there nor their occidental nurses, matrons, doctors suffered a single casualty. Some idea of the material damage and loss...
...sets in the world, realizes that, although 5,000,000 U.S. homes already own sets, another 21,000,000 families may buy them if radio broadcasting programs are high in quality and plentiful in quantity. To insure this industrial expansion, R. C. A. has just bought the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s (Bell System) Manhattan broadcasting station WEAF for $1,000,000 and organized the National Broadcasting Co. Inc. (M. H. Aylesworth, president). National Broadcasting will rent its station service for national advertising, including that of receiving set competitors...
Like Thomas Alva Edison and many another man of destiny, one Thomas Eugene Mitten began his career in the U. S. as a telegraph operator. He had come from that peaceful county of Sussex, England, and he is now the operator of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. and various motorbus, taxicab, and air lines valued at an odd half billion dollars...
...Instead of talking to one another over the telegraph, we met, man to man and face to face. That is the better way. One of the great virtues of the League of Nations is that it brings foreign ministers together and they cannot help discussing their troubles...
...Republican Guard were advancing upon Athens with two tanks. Ammunition stored in one of the tanks exploded, killing its crew and several bystanders. A pitched battle in which some 50 persons were killed ensued up and down the Kifissia Boulevard. At last Dictator Kondylis announced from the justly suspected telegraph office: "Athens is quiet, and the situation is well in hand." A subsequent despatch told of reports that the Royalist leader Colonel Plastiras was marching upon Athens with intent to coup...