Word: bell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertising man, I get my money's worth in TIME (16? including sales tax) reading ads. In TIME, Aug. 21, p. 34 you carry Lockheed brakes. Smart Bell Telephone shows its interest in synchronized advertising by using opposite column same page showing Lockheed in classified telephone directory. Then on next page is the new ingenious Willard battery...
...while the record manufacturers gloomed over their dwindling sales accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation of actual sound, from the topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry...
...room." For three years all went well. Once Caroline was brought in "concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked. ..." In the mornings William and she read "Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible"; then "Hume with Shakespeare till the dressing bell...
This time Harry Sinclair's leadership was followed. Standard of New Jersey's marketing subsidiary, Humble Oil & Refining Co., cut its posted prices 5? to 32?. Cities Service and Bell Oil & Gas cut 20?, like Sinclair. Standard of Indiana was expected to follow...
...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...