Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH BELL SYSTEM. Earnings for the quarter ending May 31 jumped to $1.32 a share, v. $1.16 a year earlier. President Frederick R. Kappel said that nearly 800,000 new telephones were connected in the quarter and that long-distance conversations rose more than 10% over last year...
...square miles of steaming, often impenetrable jungle and snowcapped mountains populated by 2,400,000 natives-90% illiterate-and some 34,000 emigre whites. Yet for nine years the Post has successfully managed to give a voice to an area where news once traveled largely by bush telegraph...
...wild-eyed, almost green with malevolence and makeup. She paced the stage and clawed the air like a caged lioness. Callas took twelve curtain calls, earned, mighty critical bravos ("terrifying," "elemental," "chilling") for a superb dramatic display. As for her voice, critics as usual found it uneven; the Daily Telegraph judged it "disappointingly small and lacking in resonance." But without the Callas dramatic presence, critics agreed, Medea would have been what Cherubini predicted in 1815: "Too severe for English tastes...
...London press wallowed in the courtroom spectacles: 6½ columns a day in the Daily Telegraph, up to three full columns in the sobersided Times. Basking in the limelight, Liberace, who first came to court in an uncharacteristically quiet blue suit, changed to a costume featuring an exuberant bronze Shantung suit, gold-buckled crocodile shoes and piano-shaped diamond and onyx cuff links. These devices stole the show from Defendant Connor, grumpily denying he meant any serious harm: the columns were only "fair comment" on the "biggest sentimental vomit of all time," the fruity allusions just "part of the impression...
...Harold S. Geneen, 49, resigned as executive vice president of Raytheon Co. to become president and chief executive officer of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., succeeding Edmond...