Word: gage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the rumor of a merger between Radio Corp. of America and Western Union Telegraph Co. Presidents of both companies have admitted "conversations." denied merger plans. Last week it became apparent that at least one current merger denial was supported by the facts. Abruptly, R.C.A. threw down the gage of battle to Western Union and announced the birth of R.C.A. Communications, Inc., to compete directly with U.S. telegraph companies...
...everyone knows, Western Union and Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...
...post office officials when queried as to the amount of correspondence that passed between Harvard men and Radcliffe students admitted that it would be impossible to ascertain. The possibility of frequent phone calls would naturally make any such figures an uncertain gage of the correspondence passing between the two institutions...
Secretary Ernest H. Cherrington of the World League Against Alcoholism cried out: "The gage has been thrown in what promises to be the greatest 'wet and dry' battle that the nation has ever seen...
...Gage, Chairman, and Marjorie Teague; G. N. Burns and Marie Cone; Bradford Cannon and Elsbeth Tait; L. E. Johnson, Jr., and Dorothy Ruth Johnson; W. W. McAdams and Marjorie Pitcher; S. P. Park and Suzanne Pollard...