Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million-plus new bicycle riders. Points: obey traffic laws; ride single file on right with traffic; don't zigzag; don't stunt; don't hitch rides on other vehicles; don't carry passengers on the handle bars; don't race cars; use the bell; remember arm signals; carry packages in a basket...
...most war plants, women are a novelty. The attitude of plant managers ranges all the way from that of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, which wonders why it did not employ women before, to that of Cadillac in Detroit which keeps its first 25 women workers behind a padlocked door. Says an executive: "You know...
Like troop movements, the shuttling of scientists from campus to campus, plant to plant, is kept quiet-almost absurdly so: Harvard faculty wives are no longer given lists of visiting scientists who can be invited to tea parties. Letter slots were cut in certain important doors at Bell Telephone's Laboratories so that nobody can peer inside. Old colleagues no longer know what their pals are working at. And after hours-which are late and long-they make heroic efforts not to talk shop...
...Bell Telephone's scientists, for example, point out that, war or no war, the peacetime research which many industries had to shelve would have precipitated great advances within five years. And other farseeing scientists like Vannevar Bush concede a short-term gain for applied science but a long-term loss, for the ultimate wellspring of technological progress is in fundamental, "pure" research, far from the gadget factory...
...signing them on the dotted line. General Motors had played hookey from the air for four years. The harassed networks hopefully interpreted the return of the prodigal as a further swing by industry to institutional radio advertising, to keep names and brands in the public ear. Present examples: Bell Telephone, Du Pont, Wheeling Steel, General Electric...