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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...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...
...have revealed-the how and why of telephone rates-Commission Counsel Samuel Becker got next to nowhere. In the past fortnight, however, Counsel Becker has borne down more consistently on the prime purpose of the investigation, giving Commission accountants a chance to talk. Questions raised thereby put FCC in a better position to ask Congress last week for an additional $400,000 to continue the investigation after July...
Among solid bits of testimony likely to help FCC get its money were: ¶On rentals of some 13.000,000 telephones to its 23 associated operating companies from 1902 to 1927, A. T. & T. made no less than $50,000,000 and, by one method of computation, $216,000,000 above a 6% return on investment. Rental charges were included in a general charge of 4½% of operating company revenues ''for engineering, financial and legal service." In 1927 A. T. & T. sold the telephones to the operating companies for $38,000,000, making...