Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Justice last week fired its antitrust guns at the biggest target of all. In a federal district court in Newark, N.J., it charged American Telephone & Telegraph Co., biggest U.S. industrial corporation (gauged by its $5 billion in assets) and its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., Inc., with "conspiracy to monopolize" the U.S. telephone business. The Government's attack, in preparation for more than a year, was no surprise. But not even A.T. & T. expected such a blanket barrage...
This week, network TV made the big jump from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. American Telephone & Telegraph officially opened coaxial cables between Philadelphia and Cleveland. It is now possible for a show to be telecast simultaneously over the area from Boston to Milwaukee to St. Louis and Richmond...
...Sunday Times's excited conclusion that Crusade in Europe is "a blow ... at British-American friendship" came a soft-gloved slap by Lord Ismay, who was Winston Churchill's chief of staff. In London's Daily Telegraph Lord Ismay wrote: "Those who were privileged to serve with Eisenhower or under him, will remember him for all time as a grand fighter, a great American, and a sincere, generous-hearted friend of Great Britain. On this there can be no argument...
...World Series games in Boston could be televised only to the Eastern states; those played in Cleveland, only to the Midwest. But next year, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. announced, things will be different. A new coaxial cable, under construction since October 1947, will tie the two regions together. * A coaxial extension to California will ultimately give TV a coast-to-coast hookup...
...over, Victor de Sabata had Pittsburgh in his pocket. After the pounding, accelerating bombardment of Bolero, there was a full minute of silence, as the audience pulled itself together. Then came the cheers. Next morning the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the concert on Page One; the afternoon Sun-Telegraph and Press gave it frontpage headlines...