Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid on an annual basis whether members sit or not. To assemble an extraordinary session approximately $200,000 would be needed for mileage & travel expenses. Other average per diem costs: Congressional Record, $5.610; printing bills and committee reports, stationery, etc., $6,000; 78 pages at $4, $312; telephone & telegraph, $500; total, $12,422. A three weeks' special session of Congress would thus roughly cost: mileage, $200.000; printing and services, $260,862; total...
...train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods, bore down from the opposite direction. The wounded could not move. The freight could not stop...
...pistol & knife, set out from their ranch one night and slipped into La Paz. In the police station they found 22 sleeping policemen. Eighteen surrendered without a struggle. The chief and three others they shot. They then stole $40 from the police safe, took the electric light plant and telegraph office, began parading the streets calling for recruits. Few joined, but for 18 hours the Kennedys held La Paz. The uprising never crossed the Parana River, which separates Entre Rios Province from the rest of Argentina. In Concordia and Concepcion del Uruguay, police dispersed bands of rebels. Troops heading...
...fellow of the American College of Surgeons, might have done the work. But old Dr. Kane likes to do things to himself. Eleven years ago he anesthetized himself and cut out his own appendix. Three years ago he began signing his operations by tattooing in India ink the Morse telegraph code (? -? ) which signifies...
When he was on the Wartime Council of National Defense he saw a good deal of Walter Sherman Gifford. After the War, Mr. Gifford saw that Mr. Willard was made a director of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Mr. Willard saw that Mr. Gifford was made a fellow trustee of Johns Hopkins University...