Word: telegraphing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...criterion is that the Western should not be adulterated with extraneous, non-western material. "Buffalo Bill" worries about the problems of old age in America, "natural" vs. "scientific" medicine, journalistic responsibility, and the degradation of royalty as it wallows in its plot; "Western Union" sticks to putting up its telegraph line. "Buffalo Bill" gapes for minutes at a time at its overdressed heroine--it was a dour day when someone discovered that Alexis Smith in tights, watching a bar-room brawl, could pull in millions of dollars from audiences that had formerly found Westerns beyond comprehension...
...Webb told Hungary, was outraged at its arrest and month-long confinement of Robert A. Vogeler, assistant vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., and the recent jailing of Israel Jacobson, head of the American Joint Distribution Committee. To make sure that the protest was understood, he announced that, until further notice, U.S. citizens would not be permitted to travel in Hungary...
Other new faces in new jobs last week: K. Taylor, who went to work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. as a stenographer in 1921, was elected assistant secretary, the first woman in A.T. & T.'s history to hold that...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's wealthiest corporation ($10 billion in assets) wants to make all of its 600,000 workers stockholders. Last week, as A.T.& T. authorized a $200 million bond issue for sale to the public, it also offered 600,000 shares of common stock for sale only to employees, at $20 below the market price (145½ last week). A.T.& T. hopes to raise more than $60 million, plans to spend the money on new telephone installations. This is the third postwar stock offering to A.T.& T. employees ; there are already...