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Sarah St. John 7 months ago
"We must think in world’s terms nowadays, since in business the Pacific and Atlantic oceans do not exist. Everything is international in scope."
Wow, and this was long before easy cross-oceanic communication. You could send a telegram across the sea as early as the 1850s, but I bet it was expensive. Transatlantic phone calls didn't start until after 1926.
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