Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have thereupon accused the British Foreign Office's civil servants of an "indiscretion" would have been contrary to the principles of British parliamentarianism and of British journalism. Instead last week, the London Daily Telegraph spoke of Italian secret operatives having filched the document out of British hands "by a clever piece of indiscretion"-neatest trick of the week...
...early cool of one morning, an army corps of jungle veterans mobilized around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat...
Western Union made $5,258,000 in 1935 against $2,243,000 in 1934. The telegraph company did not get much additional business in 1935 but succeeded in making a $3,000,000 increase in profit out of a $2,600,000 increase in income, chiefly by handling the extra business with a $300,000 decrease in operating expenses. Western Union earned $5.03 a share, closed last week at $91, about 18 times earnings...
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last week disclosed that the U. S. Weather Bureau was making a start on long-range forecasting study with help from university meteorologists. Added he: "They probably won't get anywhere, though. I have an idea that if American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were running this country it would spend $1,000,000 a year on long-range weather forecasting research. We will probably spend...
...that coal production in the Donbas mines, where Stakhanovism was originated by Stakhanov, had not only failed to set a new record but had dropped below the established norm. Comrade Stakhanov's co-workers under ground thus seemed to be either worn out or sulky. Moscow ordered by telegraph "YOU MUST WIPE OUT YOUR DISGRACE." In most cases throughout Russia, statistics showed that during the first five days of nationwide Stakhanovism the workers increased their output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became impossible to maintain this speedup. When Stakhanovism was first announced, higher...