Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post-mortems on Su Lin had not been finished when Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith arrived in Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with...
Most troublesome single spot on Western Union's ten lines to Europe is on the Atlantic shelf, 500 feet to 2,000 feet down, off the west coast of Eire. There, halibut-fishers drag heavy iron-weighted nets over the ocean's floor, frequently break cables, sometimes hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western...
Commissioner Walker's major premise is that, because of A. T. & T.'s system of cost accounting and its relations with its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., its costs are far too high and could be reduced enough to bring telephone rates down 25% "without interrupting existing net earnings." Other Walker assertions and proposals...
...Western Electric is "the manufacturing and supply department of the Bell System, having a monopolistic position comparable to that of the American company and partaking of all the attributes of a public utility. ..." The Bell System pays Western Electric unnecessarily large prices for telephone equipment and apparatus. These costs should be reduced as the major means to cutting telephone rates...
...these sweeping recommendations into effect, Paul Walker asked that the Communications Act of 1934 be amended to give FCC authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio...