Word: telegraphically
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...lunching at his club in downtown Cincinnati when a messenger brought word that the factory was on fire, and P. & G.'s vast warehouse supplies of fats and oils were going up in smoke. Instead of rushing to the scene of the disaster, Procter went to the telegraph office, dispatched wires and cables to the oil markets of the world, bought all the oil futures he could. Not only did he thus avoid a squeeze at the hands of speculators but he had plenty of raw materials on hand when P. & G.'s new plant, Ivorydale, opened...
...Line. In Tokyo, the Japanese Telephone & Telegraph Co. proudly announced that it would start processing applications for telephone service dating back...
What Every Hostess Knows. In Saint John, N.B., the Telegraph-Journal reported: "Mrs. Howard Geldart entertained the members of St. Paul's Church Mothers Union . . . Covers were laid for 30 guests. Friends of Mrs. Geldart will regret to learn that she is now a patient in the Saint John General Hospital...
...ghetto did not have to cope with the maintenance of a modern state, and the religious laws that nourished and protected the Judaism of the Diaspora can be an embarrassment once Zion has been attained. Yet the rabbinate, while recognizing that such basic services as electricity, water, telephone and telegraph must be maintained seven days a week, cannot bring itself to give the necessary dispensation to Orthodox Jews. Said one of them last week: "Jews are permitted to work on the Sabbath if the security of the nation is threatened, or to save human life. But a Jew who puts...
...eight months since he stepped into Punch's editor's chair, Malcolm Muggeridge has been trying to put the punch back into Britain's famed but ailing weekly humor magazine. Last week ex-Newsman (London Daily Telegraph) Muggeridge broke the most sacrosanct Punch tradition of all: he changed the cover for the first time in 109 years. For a special issue on British television, Muggeridge replaced Punch's elves, capering gnomes and rogues with caricatures of Britons debating commercially sponsored-TV on the British Broadcasting Corp. (among the recognizable faces: Press Lords Beaverbrook, Rothermere, Camrose...