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Show The World Grows Smaller' . . I More than 29 450 000 telephones.' 85 per cent or all the instruments in the vona, are now connected for international communication. This ! network serves a population estimated esti-mated at over 350,000,000. It is doubtful if any mechanical agency can do more to assuure world understanding and preserve world peace. By merely lifting a receiver, a person can speak to almost al-most any other person in he civilized civil-ized world at a reasonable cost. The telephone is really making the world "kin." Transatlantic telephony is a new thing. What its ultimate results will be cannot be forecast. But it is cerain that it will play a major part in the future industrial and social so-cial history of the entire world. |