Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea that Times Mirror should buy the Sun was first suggested to Murphy by Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson, an old friend and colleague from the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News. "It's a beautiful fit for us," said Johnson last week. The Sun's owners, the Abell family, said that the Times Mirror offer was simply too generous to refuse. Critics wondered whether the Times was paying too much for the Sun. "Prices for media properties have been running high," admitted Times Mirror Chairman Erburu. "But if you make the right acquisition and get a satisfactory return...
WASHINGTON--Tens of thousands of long-distance telephone callers faced delays yesterday as workers rallied and walked picket lines at American Telephone & Telegraph facilities in the nation's largest strike in three years...
...workday was just an hour old. Nearly 200 employees in the red-tiled colonial building that houses Colombo's central telegraph offices were busy at their posts. Customers had begun to queue up to pay bills, make calls at the public phone booths and send telegrams. Suddenly the morning routine was shattered by an explosion that echoed throughout the downtown area of the capital. Two floors of the three-story structure collapsed. As rescue workers sifted through the wreckage for survivors, police commandeered cars to transport the wounded to hospitals. Twelve people died and more than 100 were injured...
...presses the way he saw fit. The maneuver not only opens the way for the country's other 13 major dailies and Sunday papers to join the technological revolution but delivers a stinging blow to the British union movement. Observes Andrew Knight, chief executive of the Daily Telegraph: "This is the year of Murdoch...
...leftish Daily Mirror (circ. 3 million), plans to follow Murdoch to the east London docklands area by 1987. He has already persuaded the unions to allow him to lay off one-third of his company's 6,000 workers in exchange for severance benefits. The conservative Daily Telegraph (1.2 million), now controlled by Canadian Tycoon Conrad Black, hopes to finish its headquarters in east London by the fall. The liberal, thoughtful Guardian (487,000) is building a new plant next to the Telegraph's, while the breezy, Tory-minded Daily Mail (1.8 million) should move into its offices...