Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Sherman Gifiord, President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co LL.D...
...Sosthenes & Hernand Behn, famed Behn Brothers who have brought International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to its present potent state (TIME, April 8), came last week new conquests in a familiar field...
...cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed earth carbuncle on the slopes of the Andes near San Carlos...
...chart of the Morgan family of financiers, with photographs, was both arresting and instructive among the exhibits. Beginning with Joseph Morgan (born 1790), who gained control of a Massachusetts stage-coach system, to the present John Pierpont Morgan and his children, who control railroad, steamship, telephone, telegraph and wireless systems, the family has shown a consistent "inheritance of capacity for organization and financial leadership...
Kolster Radio Corp. was formed in 1926* as a merger of several wireless companies. It supplies the radio portion of Columbia radio-phonographs. From it the Mackay (Postal Telegraph) companies buy all their communication equipment, and it supplies a minimum of one-third of the wired radio apparatus used by wired Radio, Inc., a subsidiary of North American Co. (utility serving 932 cities with population of 6,250,000). With these potent customers, and also with an excellent Kolster radio set, it is likely that Kolster's 1929 earnings will exceed the 20? per share figure reported...