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Show "Time Cracks" The Chicago Tribune points out that "time cracks and splinters under un-der the sledges of science." It observes ob-serves that a hundred years ago it took at least three months for a message to go from London to Chicago. In 1850, five weeks were necessary. By 1900 this time had befen reduced to half an hour. Now, with the telephone, the time element ele-ment has almost entirely disappeared. disappear-ed. Words spoken in London oi Paris or Buenos Aires are heard at the same instant in Chicago or any other American community. The constructive urge of private enterprise has thus destroyed time, as it has obliterated distance. The machine age has produced no greater great-er marvel than the instrument which makes it possible for our voices to be heard thousands of miles away. |