Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family, indeed, could not have been better designed to excite the interest of a chronicler of domestic drama. Mary's mother was Dr. Helen Watson, a daughter of that Thomas A. Watson who was on the other end of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone conversation
...Mother Bell's Designs. Climaxing one of the bitterest business battles in recent history, the Federal Communications Commission turned down A.T. & T.'s request for permission to transmit printed as well as spoken communications through its transatlantic cables, which are capable of carrying both. The combined service would have given a huge sales advantage to A.T. & T., since many companies now want combination telephone-teletype hookups in order to discuss deals, plans or formulas by phone, then record them in print...
Until recently, A.T. & T. had limited its own ambitions to the transatlantic phone business. But last October, petitioning the FCC for permission to lay the fourth cable, A.T. & T. also asked to offer a combined voice and print service. The smaller companies howled, accused "Mother Bell" of monopolistic designs...
Shifting Pattern. The FCC decision permitted A.T. & T. to build its fourth cable-with Germany and France as junior partners-but also ordered that Mother Bell's competitors be given the opportunity to buy (not just lease) a part of it. Even more disconcerting to A.T. & T. was the implication in last week's decision that the Government wants to help out the company's smaller competitors. Some of Mother Bell's supporters feared that Washington might place so many restrictions on A.T. & T.'s combined voice-data communications service in the U.S. that...
Senators Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) and George McGovern (D.S.D.), Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Assistant Secre- tary of State Averill W. Harriman, Archibald Cox '34, Solicitor General, and David Bell, Director of the Agency for International Development, will definitely address the group...