Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., Sergius P. Grace heard of the Tate report. A vice president and department head of Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc., the research bureau of the Bell Telephone system and the Western Electric Co., Mr. Grace was at Atlanta for the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Bears abound in Mexico, in the western U. S. and certain other wild places. Invited by Governor of Maine Ralph 0. Brewster, 30 members of a hunting club, including Professor Langdon Warner of Harvard and Sculptor Cyrus Dallin will go to Lucerne. Maine, this week, to hunt bears with bows and arrows...
Communications. Mighty are the four chief U. S. communication companies (Radio, I. T. & I., A. T. & T., Western Union). Mightier still would be a combination of any two of them. But under the White Act, U. S. cable and radio companies may not merge. Surprising, piquant, therefore, was the admission of President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union last week, that he had conferred with Chairman of the Board Owen D. Young of Radio Corp., the subject being a possible, desirable merger...
Crackers. Voracious, United Biscuit Co. last year created a $11,500,000 subsidiary, to absorb small middle-western cracker companies, called it United Biscuit Co. of America. Accretions last week: Ontario Biscuit Co. (two plants in Buffalo, one in Pittsburgh); Hekman Biscuit Co. (Grand Rapids); Quality Biscuit Co. (Milwaukee...
Airways. The Western Air Express, Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America! and Universal Airways, Inc. President, Harris M. Hanshue; chairman of the board, James A. Talbot; designer and technician, Anthony H. G. Fokker. Capital involved: $15,000,000. Plans: 39-hour schedule between New York and Pacific Coast; 25-hour schedule between Pacific Coast and Hawaii...