Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although some U. S. firms have done an annual gross business of more than a billion dollars (TIME, May 24), none until last week was capitalized at that figure.* The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has just made the mark by issuing $154,000,000 of new stock and thus bringing its outstanding total to $1,075,597,500. New shares will be distributed to present stockholders on a 1:6 ratio...
...John Hays Hammond Jr., who occupies as much space in Who's Who as his father; an inventor of electrical devices, especially in connection with radio and such companies as the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which operate under some of his 224 patents...
Last week, "At Peace with the World and You" was played in Manhattan, a new song which purported to be the third of the series inspired by the composer's romance with the daughter of the President of the Postal Telegraph Company. The words follow...
...with private tuition in science and modern literature. He entered business, but at 23 became a proofreader for the Newcastle Chronicle. Within six weeks he was writing some of that paper's leading editorials. Contributions to the national reviews brought him wider notice, a position on the London Telegraph and the editorship, in 1905, of the Weekly Outlook. Three years later Northcliffe snapped him up for the Sunday Observer, which Garvin transformed into a magazine-newspaper with 250,000 circulation...
...steps of the Senate, Dr. J. E. Middour, assistant headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, received from Joseph M. Speer, director of industrial education in Pittsburgh, 20 prize birdhouses made by 20 schoolboys in a contest conducted by the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. They will be placed in trees on the Mercersburg campus in memory of a onetime student?Calvin Coolidge Jr. ¶ In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. ¶ James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word...