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Morgan did have a hand in the creation of the Federal Reserve, and owned the International Mercantile Marine, which owned the White Star Line, and thus the Titanic. [13] Morgan, who had attended the Titanic 's launching in 1911, had booked a personal suite aboard the ship with his own private promenade deck and a bath equipped with specially ...
The sinking of the Titanic was one of the causes of the decline of IMMC. The early 1910s marked a turning point for the IMM. Indeed, on 15 April 1912, the Titanic, flagship of its fleet, sank during her maiden voyage. Besides the financial and human losses, the sinking had repercussions on the organization of the trust.
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
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If AT&T (T) has its way, your traditional landline phone (assuming you still have one) might be going the way of the dodo bird. On a recent conference call to investors, Chairman and CEO Randall ...
Earlier this year, California regulators rejected a bid by AT&T to pull back from copper-wire landline service in the state. The carrier reasoned that plain old telephone service is, well, old ...
The AT&T Wireless brand was retired by Cingular on April 26, 2005, six months after the close of the merger. This was per a pre-spinoff agreement with AT&T Corp. that stated that if AT&T Wireless was to be bought by a competitor, the rights to the name AT&T Wireless and the use of the AT&T name in wireless phone service would revert to AT&T Corp.
The AT&T High Seas Service was a radiotelephone service that provided ship-to-shore telephone calls, which consisted of stations WOO (transmitter station in Ocean Gate, New Jersey), receiver station in Manahawkin, New Jersey, United States), [1] WOM ([Receiver site in Plantation, Florida; transmitter on Krome Ave. and KMI (transmitter station in Dixon, California), receiver station in Point ...