Word: belled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Including Law Professor Michael Severn, Critic Lionel Trilling, Philosopher Ernest Nagel, Sociologist Daniel Bell, Nobel Physicist Polykarp Kusch, Economist Eli Ginzberg, Historians William Leuchtenburg and Walter P. Metzger, Political Scientists Alexander Dallin and Alan F. Westin...
...hour have helped South Korea gain a big foothold in transistor manufacture-a business that is also growing in such low-pay spots as Hong Kong and Mexico. Foreign countries have grabbed half of the domestic movie-camera market, and all but two U.S. manufacturers (Kodak and Bell & Howell) have dropped out of the picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders and 80% of General Electric loudspeakers are made in Japan. Other advantages of U.S. industry are gradually fading. The growth...
...strike of 200,000 members of the Communications Workers of America against 20 Bell System companies caused only minor breakdowns in American Telephone & Telegraph's highly automated transcontinental telephone system. Everything continued to work so smoothly that the C.W.A. negotiator, calling from New York City's St. Moritz Hotel late one night last week, could dial through quickly to C.W.A. President Joseph A. Beirne in his Washington office. "We've got it here!" the negotiator reported proudly to Beirne. On his telephone for more long-distance calls, Beirne was able without delay to alert 19 other strike...
...C.W.A. announced the increases would cost Ma Bell no less than $2 bil lion as the average hourly wage of telephone workers rises from $2.89 to $3.46 over the three-year period. A.T. & T. denied the cost would be that great. Even so, warned A.T. & T. President Ben S. Gilmer, "the increased costs these settlements impose will inevitably have some effect on the rates our customers pay for service." In other words, telephone bills are going...
...Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...