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Marion Progress
Marion, Mcdowell County, North Carolina
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Advancements in international radio telephonic communications over the past decade, including a new link to Hawaii, two-way circuits between North and South America since April 1930, multiple transatlantic connections to Europe, and extensive global cable and radiotelegraphy networks.
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When an American telephone company recently made arrangements to establish radio telephonic communications between this country and Hawaii, another chapter was added to the romantic story of international communications as they have developed during the past ten years.
The North and South American continents were first brought into radio telephonic communication on a two-way circuit in April, 1930. This circuit covered 6,000 miles, linking almost 300,000 telephones in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay with more than 21,500,000 phones in the United States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico. Messages travel by radio to Buenos Aires and are then transmitted by land lines to the other South American countries. There are now four two-way circuits operated between New York and London, and a fifth circuit is in preparation, as well as a submarine telephone cable.
Through radiotelegraphy, the United States is connected with 45 to 50 countries by direct air channels. Thirteen go from New York to points in Europe and Asia, one crosses the South Atlantic to Africa, and seventeen circuits link the United States with South and Central American Countries. Six run across the Pacific to the Far East and numerous shorter ones connect San Francisco and Honolulu.
Today, the Atlantic Ocean is spanned by 21 cables, the Pacific by 3, the Indian Ocean by 8, and the Caribbean by three. Complicated networks run back and forth across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
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April 1930
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establishment of radio telephonic circuits linking continents, connection to 45-50 countries via radiotelegraphy, and spanning of oceans by multiple cables.
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American telephone company arranges radio telephonic communications with Hawaii. First two-way circuit between North and South America in April 1930 covering 6,000 miles and linking telephones in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay with US, Canada, Cuba, Mexico. Four two-way circuits between New York and London, fifth in preparation with submarine cable. Radiotelegraphy connects US with 45-50 countries: 13 to Europe/Asia, 1 to Africa, 17 to South/Central America, 6 to Far East, shorter to San Francisco/Honolulu. 21 Atlantic cables, 3 Pacific, 8 Indian Ocean, 3 Caribbean, networks in Mediterranean/Red Sea.