Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell Telephone Co. paid a yo-year-old debt last week. Alexander Graham Bell was really studying the problems of the deaf when he happened to invent the telephone. Now the telephone company, grown great on his sideline invention, has developed a method of making speech visible, so that the totally deaf can read...
Speech has been recorded before, but no one could actually read the wiggly groove of a phonograph record or the uneven ladder of a movie sound track. The various sounds which combine to form human speech were too jumbled up. Bell's new apparatus takes the sounds of speech apart and prints them at different levels...
Spiritual Lift. In Albany, Bell Aircraft's Benson Hamlin announced that jet planes can run on corn liquor...
Together, without rehearsals, they go through a nightly repertory of about 20 old pieces, along with an occasional unfortunate stab at such contemporary favorites as Bell Bottom Trousers. If the audience-or the band itself-likes a number, Bunk plays it again, sometimes a third time, each version entirely different. Bunk calls their style of playing ragtime ("they call it jazz, swing, they change the name. It's ragtime...
...Larry Bell's new streamlined helicopter will carry five people. But on all other details he was mum. Although the Civil Aeronautics Board has yet to approve it, Bell is confidently tooling up for volume production. By the first of the year, he hopes to start production of his first 500 helicopters...