Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1920, with a nudge or two from its bankers, J. P. Morgan & Co., and the friendly encouragement of well-wishers like American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and ex-King Alfonso of Spain, International Telephone & Telegraph Co. has installed nearly 1,000,000 telephones in ten countries. Assets on its books tot up to $537,000,000 and once in 1929 its common stock sold for $149.25 a share, 49 times earnings. Last week it sold for $6.75 a share, six times 1938 earnings, and in his annual report I. T. & T.'s amiable President Sosthenes Behn described the hardships...
George Eric Rowe Gedye lost his job as Central European correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph last February by criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Betrayal in Central Europe. Last March he lost his berth with the New York Times by being booted out of Prague by the Gestapo. Last week unlucky Correspondent Gedye (pronounced Geddy), a brisk, bright-eyed Englishman, paying his first visit to Manhattan, was offered his choice of two new posts. The Times would send him to Moscow or to Mexico City, its vacancy in Rome having been filled last month by Spanish War Correspondent Herbert...
This document, a full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...
...have ridden both courses more difficult than the world-famed Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England. Aintree's thorn hedges, through which a horse can brush without falling, are a pleasure, they say, compared to Maryland's rail fences, which are as stout and rigid as telegraph poles...
...minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands of flowers for the transatlantic heroes laid them down and went home...