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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Short wireless waves, pulsating about 900,000 times a second, are practically as efficient as land telegraph wires in transmitting messages, photographs, facsimiles, written matter (checks, messages...
...photograms over Bell Telephone wires. I. T. & T. has not abandoned its hope of buying control of R. C. A. Yet the appearance of competition seems certain to persist. Transoceanic wireless has forced the reduction of cable rates until the two services now charge practically the same prices. What land wireless rates will do to land wire rates no one before the Federal Radio Commission last week could estimate. President Simon of the Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. stated that his rates between Great Lake ports were 20% less than the telegraph companies' rates...
That one exception is on the Pacific Coast. Between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., the Mackay Companies (now part of the. I. T. & T.) operate a land wireless system. It is the only continental commercial radio service in the world...
...wants to make such land wireless service cover the continent. Through Charles Evans Hughes Jr. it demanded of the Federal Radio Commission 60 short wave wireless channels...
That is what may seem a terrible play, sight unseen, but each role has been given to a thorough player. The sets by Yellenti include one of a scene in No Man's Land which must give an authentic impression of that hell to one who has never been there. Upon the square shoulders of George Jessel has been placed the task of carrying off the play's heavier moments-a task to which he is more than equal...