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From Clarence H. Mackay, head of the Postal-Telegraph-Commercial Cable interests, came no answer. He was shooting grouse in Scotland (see p. 11). And from his subordinates came no official statement. Nevertheless a reliable report got about last week that the Mackay in terests would meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic...
...radio service between Canada and England (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). Last January the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated actual exchanges of the human voice by telephone between London and Manhattan eek there was announced a step towards a parallel development of communication westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride in the cable field. But the science...
Married. John A. Perdicaris, nephew of that Ion Perdicaris whose capture by the late Moroccan bandit lord, Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli, created an international stir in 1904;- to Miss Eunice Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio; at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Manhattan. He, a rich tobacco importer of Manhattan, Paris and Venice, hastened to sail for Europe last week with his bride...
Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut. Carlton G. Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet (7 1/5 miles), nearly a mile higher than the previous world's altitude record for seaplanes, made by Champion Champion...
...commercial trumpets and hymns from the Park Square realtors, there was prevalent a feeling that at last Boston had been recognized and that it no longer need bow its head in shame at the mention of hostelries. Now its pomp has increased, for it may flaunt a Ritz-Carlton in the fact of those who doubt its metropolitan savoir-faire...