Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gary Phone. Supreme in the U. S. telephone field is Bell, subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph. Supreme among independent phone companies became the Theodore Gary interests of Kansas City, which last week bought control of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. of St. Paul, Dakota Central Telephone Co. of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and eight other companies. Tri-State operates about 165,000 telephones, earns some $1,200,000 per annum, is valued at between...
...chapters. In 1919, when Radio Corp. was formed, it was organized solely for the purpose of transmitting wireless messages. At that time Great Britain, long dominant in cable communication, was also the outstanding leader in wireless. World's greatest wireless company was British Marconi (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.) which controlled American Marconi (Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America), leading U. S. wireless concern. British Marconi was attempting to buy from General Electric Co. exclusive rights in the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which first made long-distance radio communication possible. From the Inter-Allied Conference on Radio...
...with British wireless, and be a customer for the Alexanderson alternator. General Electric bought out the British Marconi company's interest in American Marconi, organized Radio Corp. of America to take over the business of American Marconi, which thereupon became defunct. Associated with General Electric were American Telephone & Telegraph, United Fruit Co., and Westinghouse Electric, of which only Westinghouse remains an important factor. Thus U. S. wireless became strong and vigorous, developed a three-second trans-Atlantic service, carried many a code message for many an efficient corporation...
...communications business, only the White Act keeps Radio Corp. from turning its entire message service over to International Telephone & Telegraph. In March, R. C. A. Communications, Inc. was tentatively sold to the Behn Brothers for 100 million dollars but the White Act, prohibiting cable and wireless mergers, must be amended or rescinded before I. T. & T. can take over...
Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) Robert Maynard Hutchins, university president-elect (University of Chicago) LL.D. Walter Sherman Gifford, president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. . D.Sc...