Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are reportedly three other candidates being considered for the post: Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles, and David E. Bell, director of the Agency for International Development...
...suspects that Bell may be charging too much for some services, too little for others. With its usual sympathy for Bell's smaller competitors, the Commission has been aroused by a complaint from Western Union that Bell is undercharging for services in which the two companies clash headon. A.T. &T. earns only 1.4% on the private-line telegraph service and 4.7% on the private-line telephone service that it sells to business in competition with Western Union, but gets a return of 10% on interstate telephone services which it monopolizes. The FCC will also investigate whether A.T.&T. pays...
...Kicking Tires. Unlike the auto industry, in which buyers crowd into showrooms to kick tires and slam doors, the truckmakers rely on aggressive bell-ringing salesmanship. The fleet owners, the largest of which are A.T. & T., Hertz and REA Express, account for 30% of all sales. They care less about chrome than about axle ratios and operating costs, unlike auto buyers insist on vehicles that will easily run 400,000 miles without major overhaul. All the salesmen's calls and painstaking demonstrations for show-me truckers are worth the effort, however. Depending on optional equipment, truck sales...
...showed off a new coin-operated copier for use in banks, libraries or other places where people will pay for reproductions (probable price per letter-size copy: 100). Long Island's Viewlex displayed a 20-lb. copier that retails for $249.50. Such competitors as A. B. Dick, Copease, Bell & Ho well's Ditto subsidiary and Addressograph's Bruning Division introduced new models that transpose almost all colors and shadings-whose lines in the past have been difficult for the machines to reproduce-into clear black-and-white copies...
Normally it is the auctioneer who points in ecstasy at some modest morsel of art and racks his brain for superlatives. And it is the greybeards, full of probity, in the museum pantheon who toll the bell. But roles were reversed last week when New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bid a paltry $225 for a sculpture at a Parke-Bernet auction, then gleefully announced that its new acquisition might be worth more than...