Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already bothered by the growing ability of air mail to do for 6? what a night letter does for 60f, the telegraph companies had to reckon with long distance telephone rates now halved, for example, between Chicago and New York. Their response was to work out with the delighted FCC a new scale of night rates embodying the principle of graduated volume discounts which Western Union's dour Vice President John Calvin Willever (TIME, Nov. 2) has long yearned to extend to every type of telegram. Effective June i, the ten-word night message and 50-word night letter...
...wonder if you would be good enough to make a suitable retraction, in view of the fact that because of the proceedings before the FCC to which your article referred, such a disparaging remark will have a very important bearing on the future of my business, which, in spite of all your correspondent may have led you to believe, is considered by me to be an honorable business from which I take both pride and profit...
...year ago last March Congress ordered the Federal Communications Commission to look into American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largely because it never had been investigated before. An original $750,000 appropriation became $1,150,000, and FCC investigators began to find out all there was to know about the monopolistic Bell System. One thing they found out was that over a 22-year period A. T. & T. had earned 10.9% on its long-distance business. Last January A. T. & T. "voluntarily" reduced rates on night and Sunday long-distance calls, knocked $4,000,000 off the U. S. telephone subscribers...
Fortnight ago A. T. & T. announced that the FCC had authorized a new radio- telephone service that will leave New Zealand the only country in the world with more than 100,000 subscribers which does not have radio-telephone communication with the U. S.* From an A. T. & T. radio station at Dixon, Calif, calls will go direct from the U. S. to Shanghai removing the previous necessity of routing them through Japan. Switchboard work at the U. S. end will be done in the company's Chinatown office in San Francisco...
Chances are that FCC will not force the issue. No action can be taken before next autumn at least, since Baritone Thomas has completed his year's contract with William R. Warner & Co. (Vince Mouthwash), is about to take a vacation. When he appeared on the Golden Rule Mother's Day program in Baltimore last Sunday there was no excuse for him to clash with FCC. Proud Dora Thomas from Towson was present while he sang. When queried about her son John's threat, she said: "I believe he means it. John is a Thomas...