The Outlook Volume 121 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...and discoveries which have been applied to intervening switchboard, circuits and other transmitting mechanism. The vision of the engineers has foreseen requirements for increased communication, and step by step the structure of the art has been ad vanced--each advance utilizing all previous accomplishments. No one step in advance, since the original invention, is of greater importance, perhaps, than that which has provided the multiplex system by which five telephone conversations are carried on today simultaneously over one toll line circuit, or by which forty telegraphic messages can be sent over the one pair of wires. As in a composite photograph the pictures are combined, so the several voice waves mingle on the circuit to be again separated for their various destinations. By this wonderful development the Bell System obtains for the public a multiplied usefulness from its long distance plant and can more speedily and completely meet the needs of a nation of telephone users. "Why is the price of meat so high?" THE head of a Philadelphia family writes to ask us for an explanation of the present high prices of meat. He inquires especially about the increase during the past four years. One item to consider is the increased cost of running a retail meat shop. The retailer today must pay higher wages to his clerks and more for delivery service--in fact, everything entering into the operation of his store has advanced tremendously. The principal reason retail prices are higher, however, is the fact that wholesale prices have increased. The retailer is obliged to charge more for meat because he has to pay the packers more for it. Cterkhire, delivery, rent--tn fact, all items entering into the operation of the retail meat shop--have advanced tremendou...