Transportation and communication in the United States 1925

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Identifikator:: 1767626746

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-195828

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Transportation and communication in the United States 1925

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Print. Off.

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: III S., S. 508 - 549

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Communication

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544 COMMERCE YEARBOOK COMMUNICATION International Telegraph Conference. During September and October, 1925, the International Telegraph Conference was held in Paris, at which all of the principal countries were represented. The most important questions brought before this conference were those involving change of rates and the changing of length of code words from ten letters to five. The typical code words in use to-day are largely unintelligible or unpronounceable expressions, and it is believed that if only five letters are counted to the word instead of ten as at present, a greater degree of accuracy will result in the transmission of coded messages. Radio. Several bills were introduced in the first session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, the principal purposes of which were to clarify the existing laws and to regulate radio communication. No legislation had been enacted by the end of 1925. The Fourth National Radio Conference, held in Washington in November, 1925, and presided over by the Secretary of Commerce, endeavored to solve the ever-changing problems in the radio industry. The Radio Corporation of America added a new circuit to the Dutch East Indies, and by connecting with the trans-Atlantic system at New York, now furnishes a through service to Holland. Although the circuit to Sweden commenced operation December 1, 1924, the official opening of this new route did not take place until July 2, 1925. A high-power radio station near Rio de Janeiro was placed in opera- tion in April, 1926. This station was constructed by the AEFG Consortium, composed of American, English, French, and German radio companies. This same consortium is now engaged in the ten- tative installation of a short-wave station near Santiago, Chile, which if successful, will undoubtedly result in a permanent station being built in that country. The Radio Corporation has accomplished some preliminary work in connection with the erection of a station near Manila, and engineers of the company are now in the Philippines on this project. "Dis- turbed conditions in China have prevented the construction of five contemplated stations and it is not known when work will commence, despite the fact that some of the material has already arrived. The coastal station at Galveston, Tex., purchased by the Radio Corporation from the Navy Department, is now in commercial opera- tion. Seventeen different departmental and commercial services are now operating coastal stations for marine service. The gross income of the Radio Corporation of America for 1925 amounted to $51,169,143, with expenditures of $45,431,937, leaving a net income for the year of $5,737,206. The gross receipts of ship-

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