Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurry to learn what damage radium had done, one William W. Cardow, Waterbury, Conn., motor mechanic, had an autopsy performed on his wife a few hours after her death last week. Dr. Frederic Flinn, Columbia University radium poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...
Insistent has been the rumor of a merger between Radio Corp. of America and Western Union Telegraph Co. Presidents of both companies have admitted "conversations." denied merger plans. Last week it became apparent that at least one current merger denial was supported by the facts. Abruptly, R.C.A. threw down the gage of battle to Western Union and announced the birth of R.C.A. Communications, Inc., to compete directly with U.S. telegraph companies...
...everyone knows, Western Union and Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...
However, it is into the two departments. Commercial and Traffic that many graduates of Liberal Arts colleges go, and in which they may find for themselves a definite career. This career would have certain differences from a great many other businesses. The American Telephone & Telegraph Company and Associated Companies is probably the largest combined organization, and employs the largest number of people of any group in the United States. In many ways it is analogous to the Government. The ultimate salaries, while good, are probably somewhat less than would be the case elsewhere. This is more than compensated for, however...
...considering the limitation of salary, it must be that the best jobs in the executive field are filled to a great extent by college men today; in fact, the President of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company is a Harvard man; one of the Vice Presidents is a graduate of Dartmouth...