Word: telegraphically
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...were assembled, but instead of arresting John Lewis, the Government, through another branch (Harold L. Ickes) asked Mr. Lewis not to strike against it. Mr. Lewis, with a great show of patriotism, agreed to extend the strike truce till May 31, sending out 5,000 telegrams over the overburdened telegraph lines to tell his lieutenants the strike was postponed, thus ending two weeks of buildup...
...wrote the screen play, try very hard but they sometimes outdo the shaggy-haired eccentric in being sloppily sentimental. "The Human Comedy" is the story of a typically Saroyan family in the typically Saroyan town of Ithaca, California. There is Homer MacCauley, who pedals a bicycle for Postal Telegraph and learns about life (Saroyan life, that is) from veteran telegrapher Frank Morgan and manager James Craig. His little brother Ulysses (Ulysses and Homer live in Ithaca, Saroyan reminds us gently) is the inevitable Saroyan child, full of wonder and questions, very marvelous and just a little unbelievable...
...role of the telegraph boy, Mickey Rooney turns in a performance amazingly better than any of his recent drooling. Jack Jenkins steals several scenes from old maestro Rooney as precocious Ulysses, and the other players, especially Frank Morgan (in a role which is becoming a wee bit stereotyped for him) are very adequate...
London's Daily Telegraph reported: the Franco Government has notified U.S. Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes that it must have more aviation gasoline. If the U.S. failed to deliver, Spain would not permit Portuguese planes to use Tangier, the onetime North African international zone, which Spanish troops occupied in 1940. Thus the only daily mail service linking London, Lisbon, Tangier and other African points would be severed...
...days in a row, every time the New York Stock Exchange was open for business, the shares of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. were among the ten most active stocks on the ticker. One day last week I.T. & T. hit 12¼, its high for the year and almost double the 1943 low. That was a few days after the company's annual report proved that the foresighted buyers, who got aboard when the stock was at 9, were right as rain...