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...luck almost entirely abroad, the Behns first startled financiers in 1924 by winning a concession to manage and modernize Spain's sputtering national telephone system, went on to set up 33 international manufacturing and research facilities. They were big enough by 1928 to acquire the Mackay companies, including Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. (eventually merged with Western Union). Until 1930, Sosthenes' tireless negotiating made I.T. & T. grow throughout the world, spread the company into Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Rumania...
...cavalierly in Manhattan had finally got their comeuppance. John Mackay was a patient and devoted husband; cushioned by an income of "a million dollars every thirty days," he encouraged Louise in all her extravagances. When he was not engaged in a death struggle with Financier Jay Gould over the Postal Telegraph system he had set up to rival Gould's Western Union, John liked to spend his vacations as an amused observer at his wife's parties...
...Possible Postal Cuts Planned...
WASHINGTON, May 8--Postmaster General Summerfield told Congress today he will again order cuts in postal service, effective July 1, unless the law-makers vote him an extra 70 to 90 million dollars for fiscal...
...Postal Rates...