Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowron's administration 50 miles of cast-iron water mains had been laid every month to keep up with the city's mushrooming growth. Los Angeles had built 34 new schools in ten years and still needed "a new one every Monday morning." Though the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. had installed 416,338 telephones since V-J day, it was 41,405 orders behind last week...
...room of Manhattan's McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Announced Publisher Paul Montgomery: "I have a piece of bad news this morning." The news: there would not be any September issue-or any August issue, either, even though the presses were ready to roll. Without making a move to telegraph its knockout punch, McGraw-Hill had closed out the biggest, slickest and most expensive of its 34 magazines...
Bouquets & Brickbats. Not so melted were London critics. The Manchester Guardian and London Daily Telegraph were unstinting in their praise. But the Times had a brickbat in its bouquet: "The virtuosity of the execution is astonishing. But equally . . . astonishing was the lack of [interpretive] imagination . . . Brahms's First Symphony opened with an assertion of fact, not the declaration of a mystery . . . Brahms might have written the symphony for a motion picture." Even so, on second thought, the Times admitted English orchestras suffered by comparison...
Rickenbacker captain of the varsity golf team, slept through the first round of the 16-man individual championships after a telegraph operator had allegedly failed to wake him at 7 a.m. Saturday. Late Friday night, he said, he had asked Western Union to phone him in the morning, in accordance with the Company's regular awakening service...
...national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...