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"Overhead ' is a familiar technical term in newspaper work. It describes a report flashed to a newspaper directly by commercial telegraph instead of through the regular channels of a wire service. For instance: on Decoration Day in the town of Walsenburg, Colo., 50 mi. south of Pueblo, Editor John...
But if Wall Street whispered that I. T. & T. was licked, Wall Street did not know Sosthenes Behn. To his shrewd daring and persistent battling I. T. & T. owed its spectacular soar to success. He was now to prove himself a bad-weather pilot of extraordinary ability. He hacked expenses...
William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, 47, mining engineer, 17 years with Texas Co., was made its president. Ralph Clinton Holmes, former president, now chair-man of the board, wired Texas from Manhattan reducing the posted price of crude oil at East Texas wells from 50? to 10? a barrel, the same...
Police found an autobomba, rigged by three students, one the son of a National University engineering professor. Supposedly based on an invention of U. S. gangsters, it was an automobile with an iron crib slung underneath. In the crib were 350 lb. of dynamite and TNT, wired to the handbrake...
As a personal stingaree Petitioner Parker wired Vice President Garner: "Senator Long knows neither truth, honesty nor decency. His black record is nationally known. Psychiatrists have stated in my presence that he is a dangerous paranoiac. . . . The Senate should have him permanently incarcerated in Washington. . . . He is the greatest menace...