Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since its organization in 1901, the U. S. Steel Corporation has ranked as the largest corporation in the world, with common and preferred stock totaling $868,583,600. Of recent years, however, the rapid growth in the capitalization of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has been creeping up, while Steel's capital stock has remained unchanged. Now, by issuing $150,000,000 of additional common stock, A. T. & T.'s capitalization has finally passed Steel's previous record, and amounts to $898,398,000. This makes the Telephone Company the world's largest corporation...
...accounting, legal and other departments of Western Electric he was appointed its New York Manager, in 1902 a Vice President. In 1908 he became President of the Company and in 1919, after 38 years' service with it, he resigned to accept the Presidency of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Of medium size, stocky, he has a bristly moustache and keen, kindly eyes which shine through his glasses. A year ago last January he sat at his desk on the 26th floor of his Manhattan offices and, talking quietly into a telephone, was distinctly heard in London. A successful demonstration...
...Telegraph and telephone...
...tumultuous scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
...Major Gen. George O. Squier, former chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army, reporting the results of recent experiments in ocean cable work, stated that a universal automatic telegraph transmitter, applicable to radio, land lines and submarine cables, has been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory. The electron vacuum tube is facilitating the new development; an undreamed-of degree of cable efficiency will be possible by amplification of received cable signals. Cable and radio telegraphy each have their natural sphere of utility and are not essentially in conflict...