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...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...
Tulane University was founded in 1834. For a long time it was the only important school of the South. In 1886 came Newcomb Memorial College for Girls; in 1911 Catholic Loyola University. These schools lie on pleasant adjacent campuses on the city's outskirts, opposite splendid Audubon Park, which in turn stretches between St. Charles Street and the Mississippi...
Eugene Morehead Armfield, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., Romance Languages; Arthur Watson Bromage, Wesleyan University, Conn., Warehouse Point, Conn., Government; Arthur Barton Brown '25, Roxbury, Mathematics; Edward Newcomb Brush, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., Philosophy; George Lyle Church, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Dorchester, Botany; Clayton Dion Craig, University of South Dakota, Watertown, Economics; David Mitchel Dougherty, University of Delaware, Wilmington, Del., English; Edward French Dow, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., Government; Henry Matran Eller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Classics; Raymond Matthew Fuoss '25, Altoona, Pa., Chemistry; Stowell Coolidge Goding, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Romance Languages; Granvyl...
...attention to the list of life trustees of the largest university in the world: William B. Persons (civil engineer), Chairman; Nicholas M. Butler (Columbia President) ; Marcellus H. Dodge (firearms) ; the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning (New York Bishop) ; Willard V. King (banks) ; Stephen Baker (banks) ; Frederic R. Coudert (lawyer) ; Newcomb Carlton (telegraphs) ; John G. Milburn (lawyer) ; Joseph P. Grace (banks, ships, merchandise) ; Alfred E. Marling (realty) ; Albert W. Putnam (lawyer) ; Ambrose D. Henry (railroads) ; Jackson E. Reynolds (banks) ; Frederick Coykendall (steamboats) ; Newbold Morris (lawyer) ; the Rev. Caleb R. Stetson (rector) ; Frederick A. Goetze (Columbia engineering dean...