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...Increasing Mr. Hearst's sadness during his New York stay was the death by heart failure of his good friend Joseph A. Moore, 58, until 1934 proprietor of the New York Morning Telegraph, former general manager of Hearst magazines and onetime president of the New York American, in the final conferences on which his understanding and advice were much solicited. Even more keen last week was Mr. Hearst's sense of loss when heart failure also took away Morrill Goddard, 70, the last great editor of his youth, whom he bought away from Joseph Pulitzer at the same...
...background of this not very alarming slump were a number of developments highly important to Western Union Telegraph Co. One was the process of recovery within the company itself. In 1935 Western Union made $5,258,000 against $2,243,000 in 1934. Last year it made $7,199,120. But whereas operating expenses in 1935 were actually less than the year before, last year they increased $6,706,000, including taxes and interest. Reasons: 1) three successive wage restorations by which Western Union employes received an additional $1,300,000 in 1936; 2) higher costs of materials used...
Western Union's 1,872,461 miles of wire carry four-fifths of all U. S. telegrams and Western Union has no worries about getting its share of the U. S. telegraph business. But with costs piling up in 1936 and 1937 Western Union is more than ever concerned that there shall be more & more use of telegrams. This is where the Federal Communications Commission comes in. Fortnight ago when the Commission renewed its inquiry into American Telephone & Telegraph it had the satisfaction of knowing that A. T. & T. had made no less than three reductions in long distance...
Already bothered by the growing ability of air mail to do for 6? what a night letter does for 60f, the telegraph companies had to reckon with long distance telephone rates now halved, for example, between Chicago and New York. Their response was to work out with the delighted FCC a new scale of night rates embodying the principle of graduated volume discounts which Western Union's dour Vice President John Calvin Willever (TIME, Nov. 2) has long yearned to extend to every type of telegram. Effective June i, the ten-word night message and 50-word night letter...
...placed, salary $120. Princeton, "anyone who wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...