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...Mitsui Wireless Company (of Japan) is showing marked hostility to the plans of the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States to link America and China by a $13,000,000 wireless system...
...forgotten, although his major vocation in life was neither art nor literature. Who remembers Arkwright, Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini...
...York Stock Exchange upon its members with respect to their firm advertisements, as well as its strict control over its ticker price quotations, have been endangered through the sudden perfection of radio broadcasting. By a recent resolution, the Board of Governors has forbidden the use of the wireless by its members either for advertising or publicity purposes, or for promiscuous relaying of Stock Exchange quotations. The latter will, however, be permitted in the case of broadcasting stations approved by the Exchange. The aim of the restrictions upon member advertising is to prevent undesirable public speculation; the Exchange's control...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride to: The Berlin court-on-wheels, which visits profiteers. (P. 10.) Samuel Vauclain and Samuel Gompers. They make good speeches. (P. 6.) The airplane at Étampes directed by wireless. (P. 26.) Carl Sandburg and his mystical, rhythmical love of Chicago. (P. 15.) Dr. Koo, who is said to have lost "by one bamboo" and, sportsmanlike, to have taken the post of Foreign Minister as penalty. (P. 13.) An endeavor to stimulate undergraduate thought and learning in spite of the curriculum...
...Etampes, France, an airplane directed by wireless from the ground flew easily, maneuvered freely and rose and landed several times. A Sperry stabilizer with four gyroscopes maintains equilibrium automatically and a special device cuts off ignition on landing. Captain Boucher, the inventor, predicts that such machines may well be used for bombing purposes in times...