Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Power, 60, stepped fresh into corporate management only nine years ago. Yet he has transformed a loose confederation of small telephone companies into a giant communications and manufacturing complex of 80,000 employees that serves more than 4,000,000 customers in rural and suburban U.S., where front-running Bell System does not reach, sells equipment to 4,000 other independent phone companies. Last week General Telephone got its 1959 report card-and for the first time made the honor roll of billion-dollar corporations. Sales and revenues rose to $1.1 billion, almost double 1958's total, and earnings...
...posted at the Home Office, for by custom the Home Secretary is the "first" to be informed after the royal family; a little later, a third announcement was pinned to the gates of Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. Throughout the kingdom, church bells pealed, and at Lloyd's the famed Lutine bell was rung twice to signal "good news" already known...
...Bell System rang up profits of $5.22, a 55? increase over...
...shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Actress Julie Andrews, Poet Carl Sandburg, the Metropolitan Opera's Victoria de los Angeles...