Business & Finance: International Communications

"In international communication the U. S. ought to be supreme." So said Electric Tycoon Owen D. Young last week. At the same time came news of a British merger, to control more than half of all the miles of cables in the world. But also last week, a great U. S. communication merger took place and the U. S. public was invited to inspect a new power in U. S. business. His name is Sosthenes Behn.

Companies. As everyone knows, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (including Newcomb Carlton's Western Union) is the greatest...

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