Word: telegraphs
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Many Did Well. Yet for each downbeat performance, there were many companies that did well. Xerox, struggling against stiff competition in the copier field from Eastman Kodak, IBM and Savin, posted a 12% earnings rise, to $91.6 million, about equal to total company revenues 15 years ago. American Telephone & Telegraph, which last year became the first U.S. company to earn more than $1 billion in a single quarter, did it again in the recent quarter. Earnings were $1.09 billion, up 26%. Polaroid, expected to introduce its long-awaited instant movie camera at its annual meeting this week, earned $14 million...
...volume represents only a fragment of the articles that Darwin wrote in his cramped, feverish longhand over a 46 year span and had dispatched by telegraph to London, at the night rate of eighty shillings a word. When Darwin was abroad, luxury liners like the Baltic and the Lusitania ploughed the seas carrying his copy in stow...
...telephone and telegraph allowance of at least $6,000 a year...
Serban's best images effectively magnify the play's conflict between the old order and the bright new world that is its doom: a frieze of peasants laboring beneath modern telegraph wires, a group of aristocrats watching the setting sun silhouette a factory on the horizon. But this kind of staginess can also be distracting: an imposingly literal set of cherry trees all but overruns a house in Act I; a little girl bearing cherry blossoms self-consciously tiptoes into the old servant Firs' death scene. The high, deep stage-space forces the cast to play...
Korry said moves by the Senate select committee chaired by Frank Church (D.-Idaho) to quash perjury indictments against former Central Intelligence Agency director Richard Helms and Harold Geneen, president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT), are not for "legitimate reasons of national security." Instead, he characterized them as an effort to avoid revelations of "bribery, felonies, and conspiracies to murder" perpetrated at the highest levels of government...