Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins, Tom Thumb (first U. S. locomotive), first telegraph, first U. S. electric car. Tolerant Baltimoreans rejoiced to see Catholic, Masonic, Jewish fraternal organizations parading amiably together. Up-and-coming Baltimoreans, impatient with these oldtime mementos, bustled pridefully at reminders of civic betterments: police floats "Heroism" and "While Baltimore Sleeps," Bureau of Street Cleaning float "Intersection of Streets," Bureau...
...Soviet news TASS (telegraph agency of the Soviet State) reported: "Chinese troops unexpectedly opened artillery and rifle fire on Soviet border troops in the Grodekov-Poltaskoya district, in the Nikolsk region [on the 'eastern front' near Vladivostok]." The Chinese version of this clash described it as a "Soviet invasion" by infantry and bombing planes. The Japanese Rengo correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria (300 miles from the scene) probably hazarded as good a guess as anyone's as to what happened when he cabled : "There was hard fighting with considerable loss on both sides which continued for 20 hours...
Ratified in 1911, the Lever concession granted to Lever Bros, some 1,860,000 acres, gave the company the authority to build roads, canals, railways and telegraph systems. In 1920 Lever Bros. acquired control of the Niger Co., a trading company which had functioned in West Africa much as famed Lord Clive's British East Indian Co. had during the previous century functioned in India. Lever Bros, remains today the dominating figure in West African trade...
...undergraduate may have a telephone in his dormitory room. To the few Yale telephone owners, a telephone is said to be a nuisance. Yalemen who have them are expected to take messages for other Yalemen, send telegrams, seek from professors forgotten assignments. C. Last week from New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. came more Yale telephone news. The publicity department had found that undergraduates at New Haven telephone more per capita than any other group of people in Connecticut. During the academic year they make some 4,600 calls a week, most of which are handled on Friday and Saturday...
...Yale University owned last year 5,012 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock...