Word: bell
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...four children, and, like her two friends, was a dedicated community leader and an active member of Riverside's Presbyterian Church. Mildred Lindquist, 50, wife of a vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, had two children. Lillian Getting, 50, wife of an Illinois Bell Telephone Co. official, had three children...
...blood teachers eventually be replaced by audio-visual gadgets? At the convention in Cincinnati last week of the National Education Association's Department of Audio-Visual Education some 2,000 people ohed and ahed over electronic marvels designed for the classroom. Proclaimed outgoing DAVI President Walter S. Bell, director of audio-visual education in Atlanta: "The familiar concept of a teacher in a classroom with only some books has completely broken down. The 'old methods simply cannot meet the challenge of the next decade, if education is to serve the humanities...
Power had a mental blueprint all ready for General Telephone's expansion. To escape the long shadow of Mother Bell he set up a central advertising and public relations department to sharpen the company's independent identity, prefixed the title "General Telephone" to each of General's 30 domestic and five foreign subsidiaries. As the company became better known-it serves such important cities as Long Beach, Calif., Erie, Pa., Fort Wayne, Ind. and Lexington, Ky.-he used its growing reputation to raise capital needed for growth, has raised more than $1 billion...
POWER used the money to acquire small independents that could not keep up to the growing demands of burgeoning suburbia, which the Bell System had to forgo for antitrust reasons. He also set out to fill what he considered General's two biggest needs: manufacturing and research facilities similar to Bell's. In 1955 he bought Theodore Gary & Co., a large Midwestern independent that owned Automatic Electric Co., a major supplier of telephone equipment. General Telephone thus became not only its own equipment supplier, but a supplier for 4,000 independents to which Bell did not sell...
Power has set up General Telephone for the communications revolution of the future. It is working on outer space research, techniques for using telephony in transmitting business data, electronic brains to direct a nationwide telephone system. It still uses the Bell System's long distance lines to link its subsidiaries, but Don Power has rid the company of its inferiority complex. Since he took over, the company's total assets have increased fivefold, its sales and revenue twelvefold. This year General plans to spend a record $275 million in capital investment, will soon float new stock, its biggest...