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Page xxxix
... Western Union Telegraph Company is enormously overcapitalized . Its present capitaliza- tion , including stocks of minor companies which it has guaranteed , is $ 135,000,000 . These witnesses point out that from time to time since 1858 ...
... Western Union Telegraph Company is enormously overcapitalized . Its present capitaliza- tion , including stocks of minor companies which it has guaranteed , is $ 135,000,000 . These witnesses point out that from time to time since 1858 ...
Page xl
... Western Union Telegraph Company handles on the average 21 words for a 10 - word message , and that the rate for an equal number of words in European countries , where every word is charged for , would be usually about 21 cents , while ...
... Western Union Telegraph Company handles on the average 21 words for a 10 - word message , and that the rate for an equal number of words in European countries , where every word is charged for , would be usually about 21 cents , while ...
Page xli
... Western Union Telegraph Company is mainly responsible for the alleged news monopoly possessed by the Associated ... Union especially insist on this point . Replying to these charges , the vice - president of the Western Union Company ...
... Western Union Telegraph Company is mainly responsible for the alleged news monopoly possessed by the Associated ... Union especially insist on this point . Replying to these charges , the vice - president of the Western Union Company ...
Page xlii
... Western Union Telegraph Company tends to suppress progress in the telegraph business by refusing ́ to make use of new inventions in many instances , and by practically preventing , through its monopoly , the introduction of such ...
... Western Union Telegraph Company tends to suppress progress in the telegraph business by refusing ́ to make use of new inventions in many instances , and by practically preventing , through its monopoly , the introduction of such ...
Page cciii
... Western Union Telegraph Com- pany . Mr. CLARK , vice - president of the Western Union Telegraph Company , sub- mits extracts from the annual report of that company showing the mileage and other conditions of business . In 1866 the ...
... Western Union Telegraph Com- pany . Mr. CLARK , vice - president of the Western Union Telegraph Company , sub- mits extracts from the annual report of that company showing the mileage and other conditions of business . In 1866 the ...
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