Word: belle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest heroes are scientists. Though inventors such as Eli Whitney, Edison or Bell have long been acknowledged, only Einstein among the pure scientists held a place in the U.S. consciousness until World War II. Today the roster would be long, studded with such names as Teller, Oppenheimer and Waksman. Another set of latter-day heroes are physicians, whose list would include Drs. Fleming, DeBakey, Salk and Paul Dudley White. Among businessmen, only Henry Ford has achieved anything like heroic dimensions, although such magnates as Astor and Carnegie were heroes to their day. The values of commerce, no matter how much...
...more than a dozen trolley museums. He can see the long, spring-mounted pole that held the round grooved wheel ^That's the trolley") against the overhead electric wire. He can see where the motorman stood, his foot on the button that rang the bell ("One clang for stopping, two for starting"). He will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some 100,000 trolleys and 45,000 miles of track to take them out to the ball game or off to the amusement park, or even...
...technique is based on Ivan Pavlov's famed conditional-reflex experiment, in which a dog was trained to salivate at the sound of a bell. But for June, the conditioning was the dog-bell routine in reverse. Called "aversion therapy," it was the same stunt researchers use to train laboratory rats...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was under way. For perhaps the next two years, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission will hear hundreds of witnesses and weigh tons of documents to determine what should be reasonable rates and profits for a company that is really a tolerated monopoly. Last week Bell got in first licks. Far from earning an excessive profit, argued Vice President F. Mark Garlinghouse, A.T. & T. in 1965 earned a modest 7.78% on investment as against 10% to 12% for most big industrial firms. He contended that the telephone company really needs 8% to 8.5% to attract fresh...
...staggering $6.82 billion, more than double the gross national product of Ireland, and has cost each 100-share stockholder $1,288. This has been a primary factor in the recent drop in the stock market, and nobody on Wall Street doubts that the FCC investigation is the cause of Bell's decline. Had A.T. & T. held its October price, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks would have been about 5.7 points higher than last week's close...