1980 - for the first time in the history of Western Union revenues from money transfers exceeded the income from the telegraph service. Leaving the idea of expansion into Europe, Western Union took up the expansion of services in the U.S. market. One of the common kinds of money transfer is a transfer via the international system of Western Union. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same.