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...south of the Mexican border, Latin American telephone systems are now on a par with the U.S. systems of 30 years ago. Some of their equipment actually dates from that period. Important cities have no direct links; rural telephones scarcely exist. Around each densely settled community is spun a small network of telephones, having no relation to neighboring networks. In all Latin America, there is less than one telephone for each 100 inhabitants. The present U.S. ratio...
...this purchase, Col. Behn drew into I. T. & T.'s system the second largest telephone company in South America. British stockholders recalled, last week, that he had already gained control of the third largest (Chile Telephone Co.) and fourth largest (Montevideo Telephone Co.), both wrested from British interests. Last June, I. T. & T. celebrated an extraordinary feat. Fighting snowstorms, landslides, it had flung its telephone lines across the 13,000-ft. Andes, linking Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo...
...Behn's great design thus became obvious to the most casual observer. I. T. & T. cables stretch to the west coast of South America. Here they connect with the trans-Andean cable and telephone lines. And these lines in turn connect with the domestic telephone systems of Chile, Uruguay and now, Argentina. Thus a fast message may be relayed from New York to a house in the suburbs of Montevideo without once leaving I. T. & T. wires...
Only one major South American telephone company remains outside I. T. & T. control. Canadian-owned, this company operates from Rio de Janeiro, is the largest on the continent. It would be rash to forecast the plans of silent Col. Sosthenes Behn. But no one would be surprised if the next purchase by I. T. & T. carried its network into Rio de Janeiro...
Summer passed with its flowers, fall with its gleaning; the stalks stood bare in the fields. A general taxation had been decreed for all the Roman Empire. In compliance with custom it became necessary for Joseph to make the nine days' journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, far south in the province of Judaea, the city of David, there to be taxed. It was nigh Mary's time but he took her with...