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Walter S Gifford cited as catalyst for American Telephone progress
The Telephone Review profiles Walter S Gifford newly elected president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. It notes his habit of seeking the impossible, his role in creating the companys Statistical Department, and his influence on expanding telephone service from two to five million by 1910. It also mentions stockholder counts, installment plan subscribers, and Giffords home and work ethos.
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W. S. Gifford
American Telephone& Telegraph Company
Walter 8. Gifford
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
The
Telephone Review
Gifford
France
Inter-Allied Mansions Council
General Pershing
Chaumont
Walter S. Gifford
Statistical Department of American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Lionel Barrymore
A. N. Woods
Leon Gordon
Washington, D. C
Springfield
Mass
Washington
American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company
Herolom
New York
G. J. Holly
T. 4. Mahoney
Plant Department
Nan
Broderick
Ford
Albany
B. von Sneidern
Ota Praett
Eugene
Renvih N
BB. Fay
Fireleln
G. T. Cons
Wen
Fay
Klein
Cook
Girl
Brooklyn
Chanteone Murphy
Cortelyou Road
Murphy
Rogers
Oneida
Oneida 1
Utica
Chittenango
Canastota
Tts
Sumon
New York Telephone Company
Hell System
Long Island
Saya
Wallabont Canal
Washington Avenue
Manhattan