Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlton, president of Western Union, sailed for Europe on the Aquitania. The incident strengthened rumors concerning a Radio-Western Union merger. Chief obstacle to a union between Radio Corp. of America Communications, Inc., and the Western Union Telegraph Co. is the White Act, Federal law forbidding the merger of wire and radio companies. It is believed, however, that Radio and Western Union will soon conclude an operating agreement. Later an effort will be made to amend the White Act to permit a merger...
Down from overcast skies in the Panama Canal Zone fell an envelope attached to a wire and a weight. Where it landed, men in uniform gathered excitedly, discussed its exact location, took the letter to more important men in uniform whose faces were grave...
...density different from the surrounding rock, tend to deflect the direction of gravity and the change, though almost infinitesimal, from the standpoint of ordinary human experience, is capable of measurement by observing the amount of rotation of a light beam appropriately weighted and suspended on a thin platinum wire. Ore bodies themselves are rarely large enough to cause detectable variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores of folds, dome-shaped masses of salt, or bleached cavernous ground can often be recognized by the anomalies caused by them in the gravitational field, and critical evidence bearing...
...those present, the persons, staring about them with ennui or enthusiasm were the most absurd. The rabbits crawled about in wire enclosures, their noses twitching with annoyance, their legs dragging in bewildered apathy. The guinea pigs dozed or squeaked with fury. The fowl alone presented a pleasing appearance. Their bright plumes flashed and glittered; their stupid, shining eyes were red with pride or excitement as they strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged...
Thus Argentina, which sent no delegates to the Conference (TIME, Dec. 3) and did not sign the Pacts, last week, can later avail herself of the new machinery of conciliation by dropping a wire at any time to Santiago, Chile...