Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loping over the Equatorial highlands of Kenya, about midway along-Africa's Cape Town-to-Cairo all-British backbone, a giraffe ran into a telegraph pole last fortnight and interrupted the African telegraph service the late great Cecil Rhodes was always worrying about. The news humming over the wires before the giraffe butted in would have interested Rhodes...
...Kingsley Wood Britain has found its perfect Postmaster-General. A solicitor and Member of Parliament, he has all his life stood four-square for Health, Education, Housing and Insurance. By go-getting advertising for the telephone and telegraph systems, which belong to His Majesty's Post Office, he had built up by December 1933 a record profit...
...many other reasons: the great public works program begun in 1933; the thrift and conservatism of Swedes; the exemplary caution of Swedish savings banks; the huge cooperative union controlling nearly one-half of Sweden's trade in food and clothing; and Government ownership of the Swedish railways, telegraph and most of the telephone system, one-third of the mines and 80% of household electricity...
...Durant, the newly appointed Business Manager, has had experience as an engineer in this country and abroad. He has spent three years in Cuba and one in South America, in contracting work on harbors, bridges, railroads, etc. Between 1925 and 1930 he worked with the International Telephone and Telegraph Company during which time he was in charge of the erection of thirty telephone buildings in Spain. He then became a Vice-President of the Postal Telegraph Company, for the South Western division. In 1934 he has been chief engineer of the C.W.A. in New York, in charge of all projects...
...weeks Irish farmers have fought off government collectors come to get the annuity tax. Last week the tax collectors seized the delinquents' cows. A cordon of police accompanied the herd. Mad as Kilkenny cats, the farmers went ahead, felling trees across the road and cutting telephone and telegraph wires. Patiently cows, collectors and police plodded over all obstructions into Kilkenny (known to its own citizens as Cill Cainnig). A sullen mob of farmers watched as an auctioneer sold the herd to a stranger...