Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...
...only as a competitor of Radio Corp. and Mackay Co. did Universal Wireless make its dramatic appearance. Such established systems as Western Union and Postal Telegraph must watch this rising communications company. Said Dr. John Nathonsohn, Manhattan representative of Universal Wireless, naively: "We are not proposing to undercut the wire companies. But we intend to offer a 12-word message instead of a 10-word one at the same rate now being charged for the shorter one by the telegraph companies...
While wireless companies prepared to compete with land lines, the chief U. S. telegraph company made ready for a record-breaking year. Announced by Western Union Telegraph Co., last week, was an appropriation of $29,000,000 for improvements, replacements, new construction...
Cable. Most important of Western Union's undersea innovations is the newly laid, $2,000,000 link between Newfoundland and the Azores. Back and forth, last week, sped test messages. The service will be opened to the public this month...
After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...