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Show CARRIED NINETEEN MILLION MESSAGES. Last year the American telephone system carried nineteen billion communications. com-munications. The total distance covered cov-ered by these messages was over forty-five billion mile's. Forty-six years ago there was one telephone in the world the instrument which Ili-l 1 invented. Today there is in the United Stale's one telephone for every ev-ery eight persons. Forty-nix years ago there were two telephone employes em-ployes He'll and his assistant. Today To-day there are 300,000. Forty-six years ago the world's entire telephone tele-phone plant could have been held in one man's hand. Today, in this country coun-try alone, tltcro are, among other items, 1 1,000,000 instruments, up-warels up-warels of 21,000 central offices, and 34,000,000 miles of wire, the whole plant showing a book cost of more than $2,000,000,000. |