Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last week with a declaration of intentions. In them may be traced the influences of a career that included free-lance writing, editorship of the Western Electric News; War correspondence "on space" (the New York Herald Tribune), punching player piano rolls in a New Jersey factory, music critic of the World...
What the Mackay Companies (Postal Telegraph, Commercial Cable, Radio Communications, etc.) would do about the bigger and better transpacific cable projected by the Western Union Telegraph Co. (TIME, Aug. 15, 22) developed last week...
...make a 25% profit and also a royalty on the pieces of apparatus used by the Mackay Companies. Further, the Mackay Companies obligated itself, through its Radio Communication, to pay half the cost of Federal Telegraph's research laboratories. The arrangement is quite like that kept by Western Electric Co. and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Federal Telegraph had assets, Dec. 31, 1925, of $5,715,383 and net operating profits for that year of $117,061. The acquisition of Federal Telegraph's Pacific Coast radio system seems to put the Mackay Companies in command of transpacific communications...
...benefit of competing eastern trunk lines and to help resolve their standstill, the Sun writer had the Pennsylvania suggest that the Reading, the Central of New Jersey and the Western Maryland, each of which is demanded by two or more of the competitors, be neutralized. But, "it is announced, moreover, that any new plan that may be worked out must provide for what the Pennsylvania officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact...
...company has hired the transportation services of the National Air Transport Co. between Manhattan and Chicago (and later between Chicago and Dallas, Tex.) and the Boeing Air Transport Co. between Chicago and San Francisco. An auxiliary air express service between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles will use Western Air Express...