Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which developed both the old and new jet belts, are optimistic. The Pentagon has invested $2,000,000 in the project, believes that it can drastically alter infantry warfare through such means as mass landings behind enemy lines...
Actually, the things that are moving are pretty much the same in all the sun spots. Males in sawed-off Levi's and sweatshirts pursuing females in bikinis or bell-bottomed hiphuggers. And vice versa. By day, the hunt takes place on the beach, where surfers and volleyballers ripple muscles before appreciative quarry. At night, it continues with beer drinking and frenzied frugging to ear-shattering rock bands in the local clubs: Cisco's at Manhattan Beach, Zack's in Falmouth, Mass., Big Al's Gas House in Santa Cruz, Calif. When the bars close...
...visiting New Yorker demanded to see the president. A complaint, perhaps? Not at all. The visitor had just used one of the three sleek air-conditioned telephone booths outside the building; he merely wanted to pump President Henry W. Gentsch's hand and tell him that the big Bell System could not do better than that back home in New York...
...many a telephone user, it comes as a surprise to learn that not all U.S. telephones belong to Mother Bell; others are startled to discover that even small independent companies like Gentsch's have modern equipment and first-rate service. The Bell System and its 23 subsidiary operating companies own 84% of the nation's 94 million telephones, but the percentage is dropping. The remaining phones belong to 2,423 independent companies, largely centered in the Midwest, Far West and South-along with all of Hawaii and Alaska. The independents last year had combined revenues of $1.7 billion...
...farmland they serve is now becoming suburbanized as homeowners and businesses both spread out from the cities. Under a 1913 compact with the U.S. Attorney General, A. T. & T. agreed to acquire no more independents and to provide connecting service with those that remained; the effect was to concentrate Bell service in cities where telephone demands were bigger. The country was largely left to the independents, who sometimes strung their wire along fences and made the party line famous. Now the independents turn out to have good growth areas and their revenues have been increasing an average of 11% annually...