Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire activity centering around the Union will reach its peak on election night when the Union has secured a direct wire from Western Union for the service of its members. Election results will be transmitted over the wire to the Union at intervals during the evening...
Also there is the maintenance of competition, the avoidance of monopoly, which the Federal Trade Commissioners like to oversee. Already the Postal Telegraph (I. T. & T. subsidiary) and Western Union are sending telegrams and photograms over Bell Telephone wires. I. T. & T. has not abandoned its hope of buying control of R. C. A. Yet the appearance of competition seems certain to persist. Transoceanic wireless has forced the reduction of cable rates until the two services now charge practically the same prices. What land wireless rates will do to land wire rates no one before the Federal Radio Commission last...
...great U. S. communication systems are: 1) American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (telephones); 2) International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (telegraph, cable, wireless, foreign telephone); 3) Western Union Telegraph Co. (telegraph, cable); 4) Radio Corporation of America (wireless telegraph, radio telephone). The four corporations are separate utilities and compete against each other for the U. S. communication business...
Russian Coal to Boston. Boston is close to 5,000 ship miles from the Don coal basin of Russia; Boston is about 300 miles from the anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, about 600 from the bituminous deposits of Western Pennsylvania and of West Virginia. Yet the difference between production and shipping costs is enough for Boston to buy a shipment of coal from Russia...
Gasoline Pumps. Bennett Pumps Corp. of Muskegon, Mich., joined with Service Station Equipment Co. Ltd. of Canada-a $6,500,000 proposition. Wayne Pump Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., is negotiating to buy a number of mid-western companies that make service station equipment...