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Companies. As everyone knows, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (including Newcomb Carlton's Western Union) is the greatest domestic communication system in the U. S. At its head is that young super-executive, President Walter Sherman Gifford. As everyone also knows, the second greatest domestic system is the Mackay-owned Postal Telegraph, which has no telephones...
Western Union Telegraph Co. (an institution whose chief, Newcomb Carlton, identifies it)-$15,059,848. Previous year...
From Clarence H. Mackay, head of the Postal-Telegraph-Commercial Cable interests, came no answer. He was shooting grouse in Scotland (see p. 11). And from his subordinates came no official statement. Nevertheless a reliable report got about last week that the Mackay in terests would meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic...
...beam" radio service between Canada and England (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). Last January the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated actual exchanges of the human voice by telephone between London and Manhattan eek there was announced a step towards a parallel development of communication westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride in the cable field. But the science...
...year was $15,205,049, no notable increase above the $15,186,259 of 1925. Yet the gross operating revenues were $134,464,886, the greatest in the concern's history, considerably more than the $127,078,023 of the previous year. In report to stockholders last week, President Newcomb Carlton said that 64,000 miles of copper wire were strung during...