Word: newcomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newcomb Carlton, president of Western Union Telegraph Co. was interviewed by the Rochester, N. Y. Journal on the Depression. Declared he: "A good many dayworkers are putting in only part time to spread the work, but it's 'stuffed shirts' like me who are putting in full time...
President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union Telegraph Co LL.D...
Western Union Telegraph Co. (Handles more than 80% °f landline telegraph business in the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton considers British wire and wireless merger no menace; differs with Owen D. Young. Best profit year was 1925: $16,186,000 net): Net 1929 profit, $15,490,573 as against...
Fluent had been Owen D. Young's arguments that British Cables & Wireless, Ltd., was a "menace" (TIME, Jan. 20). Cocky had been Newcomb Carlton's assertions that the "menace" was a "bogy." Because I. T. & T. controls Postal and because a merger with Radio would mean less competition, it was expected that Mr. Mackay would agree with Owen D. Young. This he did, but neither to the deflation of the "menace" nor the inflation of the "bogy." Shrewdly he said: "If there were no British merger we would still wish to coördinate cable and radio...
...Newcomb Carlton, Western Union...