Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Thus the sin-and-crime-loving London Daily Mirror tops 4,000,000 copies a day, while the respected Manchester Guardian sells a mere 160,000 and the famed London Times only 280,000. One happy exception to the rule is Viscount Camrose's London Daily Telegraph, whose circulation of 981,566 makes it the world's largest quality newspaper. Most of the Telegraph's readers on both sides of the Atlantic (it has 600 U.S. subscribers) consider its all-round news coverage about the best in Britain...
...made," the public is told. The Soviet Sculptors' Trust informs collective farm and union centers that it "has ready a sculpture of Lenin by D. P. Schwartz, 2 meters 25 cm. high, made of concrete. Price 3,500 rubles ($875); time of delivery, 2-3 months. For orders, telegraph Moscow Skulpcombinat...
Lowered Flags. Within a few hours Canada's capital was in mourning for Laurence Steinhardt, one of the ablest and most popular ambassadors the U.S. had ever sent abroad. All over the city (except at the Soviet embassy) flags flew at half-staff. Telegraph companies hired extra messengers to deliver the stacks of telegrams. At the U.S. embassy, a second receptionist was assigned to receive the crowds that came to pay respects...
...architects, engineers and shipping-line executives. His classroom itself was a ship, with the Skipper forward on his bridge, pounding the deck until class was over and it was time for all hands to go ashore. Last week, at 64, the Skipper announced that he would soon set the telegraph for good at "Finished Engines," and retire. Without him, Yale thought, it would give no more courses in naval architecture and marine engineering...
...dining room. As boss of the world's biggest life insurance company, he had some impressive figures to give them. In 1949, said Lincoln, Metropolitan had boosted its assets 6% to a mammoth $9.7 billion. It had not yet overtaken the world's biggest corporation-American Telephone & Telegraph, whose assets total $10.8 billion-but it was on its way. In 1950's first two months, said Lincoln proudly, Metropolitan had sold more group insurance than in the entire previous year. A big reason: it had just signed a contract with Bethlehem Steel Corp. for a $325 million...