Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native Albert Lea, Minn., can still cuss on occasion like the pole-hole digger he once was. One significant term that often salts his conversation is "long-nosed." Says Kappel: "It's a term I use to mean looking ahead, planning ahead. I like to think of the Bell System as a long-nosed company...
Ideas are the chief products at celebrated Bell Labs, where 4,575 scientists are engaged in what Kappel calls "the exploration of dreams." The dreams range from figuring out ways to stop squirrels from chewing up telephone wires to devising a typewriter that could work by oral dictation...
Endowed with virtually unlimited resources and free dom, Bell Lab scientists have made such major breakthrough discoveries as radio astronomy, magnetic-tape recorders, hifi, and the most important invention since World War II, the transistor. Thanks to the transistor...
...Bell next year will begin to slowly convert to a fully electronic switching system that will enable the phone user to reach frequently called numbers by dialing only two digits, to call third parties onto the line, and to switch incoming calls to other numbers if he leaves his home or office. What next? At their yellow brick headquarters, which sprawls like a Pentagon of science over the wooded hills of Murray Hill, N.J., Bell's crew-cut mathematicians, physicists and chemists-many of them not yet 30-are working on pocket phones, wristwatch phones, and laser beams that...
...than 100 shares, and the biggest holder, Wall Street's Merrill Lynch, keeps most of its 3,600,000 shares for small-customer accounts.* No wonder that Wall Street dubs A.T.&T. "the widows' and or phans' stock," and shareholders affectionately refer to it as "Ma Bell...