Word: telegraph
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During his yellow-journalism heyday in the 1930s, Hearst dictated rat-a-tat headlines and punished political enemies in 18 big-city papers, including the New York Journal-American, the Chicago Herald-American and the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph. Today the company publishes 15 dailies, most of them in smaller cities such as Midland, Texas, and Bad Axe, Mich. After years of mounting losses, the firm sold the Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought...
DENNIS CROWLEY and Pauly O'Brien grew up together on Telegraph Hill in South Boston. At 64, they're still the greatest of friends, spending all their time together...
...national level, Congress still controls 75% of the seats in Parliament, but the losses have spotlighted serious declines in the party's popularity. Gandhi has political troubles on other fronts, including a feud with India's President, Giani Zail Singh. Capturing a widespread mood in the country, the Calcutta Telegraph declared last week, "The growing questions about Mr. Gandhi's abilities are taking their toll...
...Reagan for the most part remained his mother's obedient son. Professionally, he was his father's offspring, "a supplier of entertainment, comfort, distraction, and healing symbols," a somnipractor, suggests the author, an arranger of others' dreams. The now famous years as radio sportscaster, describing baseball games confected from telegraph bulletins, were succeeded by decades as a Hollywood actor whose ideas of history were often derived from scenarios...
Transatlantic cables have been in operation since 1858, when the first working telegraph line was laid between Newfoundland and Ireland after many failed attempts. But radio was the only means of transmitting telephone calls across the ocean until 1956, when the first voice-carrying cable was completed. Dubbed TAT-1, for transatlantic, the $49.5 million telephone cable connected Newfoundland with Scotland and could carry 52 telephone calls. More cables followed, but the number of available wires remained well below demand until recent years. The last conventional cable to be installed, TAT-7, was built in 1983 for $191 million...