Last week the following were news: In a first-class fighting vessel there are three complete and parallel communication systems. If one is disrupted in battle, another immediately goes into service. In the U. S. also there are three communication systems—two telegraph companies and, for all practical purposes, one telephone company. Last winter Western Union upped a retired British rear admiral named Charles Penrose Rushton Coode to vice president in charge of European operations. Last week not Postal Telegraph but a sister subsidiary in its International Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U....
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