Word: telegraphs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Joseph Kress, 44, a proud Navy mother in Dubuque, Iowa, walked into the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton...
...Telegraph-Herald was delighted to run Jimmy's letter; indeed, to Mrs. Kress's great astonishment, the letter made the front pages of newspapers all over the U.S. For the most part, it contained a lively, although almost certainly inaccurate account of the mysterious Sept. 18th destroyer action in the Tonkin Gulf. Wrote young Kress: "We picked up about seven contacts on the radar screen. The Edwards blew two of them out of the water for certain and shot up another one. I don't know if the Morton destroyed any or not. One of them boats...
...worst defeat since Bunker Hill," moaned the correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph. It certainly couldn't have been much worse. In four races against Constellation, the U.S. America's Cup defender, Britain's $300,000 challenger, Sovereign, did nothing to support her name. She lost the first race by 5 min. 34 sec.; the second by 20 min. 24 sec.; the third by 6 min. 33 sec. The fourth and final race last week was absolutely no contest...
...drop in union workers from 13,000 to 7,000 since 1946. Businessmen also complain that collecting the taxes requires extra time and money for which they are not reimbursed: the expense can run from $1 a day for small retailers to the $5,000,000 that American Telephone & Telegraph pays out in collection costs for every $500 million it collects of the 10% tax imposed on telephone calls...
...Taxpayers. The lines are no longer clear. Americans this year got a small reduction, De Gaulle long ago made subjects of the French, and those noises in London last week were unmistakably the shrill, surly shrieks of the wounded taxpayer at bay. CASH "FRITTERED AWAY" ABROAD, reported the Daily Telegraph. Sputtered the Daily Mirror: "What the taxpayers of this country want to know is: Who is going to be fired as a result of this...