Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highly esteemed in Britain, author of numerous books, Hector Charles Bywater of the London Daily Telegraph is a very specialized critic. He reviews no plays, no novels, no art exhibitions. Hector Bywater criticizes battleships. Last week Hector Bywater went down to sunny Devonport on special invitation from the Admiralty to take a look at H. M. S. Adventure, a 7,000-ton cruiser whose innards have been a closely guarded secret ever since her launching nine years ago. There may have been ulterior reasons for the trip. Though widely known as the last of Britain's "hush hush" ships...
...There are terrestrial magnetic disturbances which interfere with radio communication, occasionally with telephone & telegraph service...
Consolidated Telegrams. Newcomb Carlton, chairman of Western Union, has steadily opposed merging Western Union with Postal Telegraph, subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph. Last week in London he gave his blessing to a sort of merger: Western Union's English and European offices with those of R. C. A. Communications, Inc. (subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America), of Commercial Cables Co. (I. T. & T. cable subsidiary) and of Imperial & International, British Wireless and Cable Company. The merged offices, he distinctly explained, are to operate in a fashion similar to consolidated railway ticket offices; the companies remain separate...
...shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel. Last year he was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon, now supervises Texas patronage distribution. He sends long night letters to President Roosevelt at least twice a week. Once in a while sleepy telegraph operators at Fort Worth are roused late at night with a message back from the White House to Publisher Carter. The political bickering at "Shady Oaks" lasted long after Vice President Garner retired at 10 p. m., a whole hour later than his accustomed bedtime...
...month Armour & Co. (now nothing), previously $1,000 a month, still earlier $40,000 a year American Express (formerly) $3,000 a year Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (formerly) $20,000 a year International Paper, about $2,000 Stone & Webster (formerly) $1,500 Underwood Elliott Fisher, about $2,000 Western Union Telegraph, about $3,000 Finance Co. of Great Britain & America (formerly) about...