In the Western Union in the 30s of the 20th century worked 14 thousand couriers delivering telegrams. As a result of 2011, net income of Western Union has increased by 28% to $ 1.165 billion, the company reported. In 1877, starting from September, New York City residents began to have the opportunity to check the time on clock with the "time ball", located on the roof of constructed in the same year a new corporate headquarters - Western Union Building. In the early 60s Western Union has put into operation transcontinental microwave system of data transmission via radio waves, completely replacing the web of telegraph poles and wires. Thanks to cooperation with Western Union the Associated Press at the end of the XIX century took almost monopolistic position in the U.S. market news.