Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Build a Monopoly. Some 18 million dial phones still worked, but that service would last only until there were mechanical breakdowns. Maintenance workers were among the strikers; so were clerical, accounting and plant workers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s vast Bell Systems. Workers at the subsidiary Western Electric joined the walkout...
That issue was important to 36-year-old Joseph Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, who called the strike. The N.F.T.W. represented 49 of the 83 unions in the Bell Systems' intricate labor setup. Beirne's ambition was to represent all 83, so that he could confront one of the nation's biggest industrial monopolies with one of the biggest labor monopolies-an organization of some 630,000 workers, mostly women...
TIME has been trying to get a clear view of the political situation in Burma. A local correspondent in Rangoon last week rang the bell* with the following summary of the situation...
...bell in the Kyaikthanlan Pagoda in Moulmein has this English inscription: "This bell is made by Koonalenga, the priest, and weighs 600 viss. No body design to destroy this Bell: Moulmein, March 30th, 1855. He who destroyed to this Bell, they must be in the great Heell, and unable to coming...
...wooden platform in the west tower of the Mexico City Cathedral, a wizened little man worked a 500-lb. clapper back & forth until the great bell gave tongue. With all the majesty of her 155 years and the strength of her 27,000 pounds, sonorous Santa María de Guadalupe boomed out the first glad tidings of Easter...