Word: bells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round, Bassey's left eye was cut, and his right eye was beginning to close. Moore opened up with left hooks and right uppercuts that had the challenger tottering backward in a grotesque little dance. At the bell, Bassey weakly raised Moore's hand, then refused to come out for the eleventh. "I'm getting beaten too badly," he told Referee Frankie Van. "I'm through...
Nasty Job. The first trenches will connect stripped-out areas and so make a perimeter beyond which the fire cannot spread. Then the draglines will work in ward, digging both burning and nonburn-ing coal from the whole 130 acres. Says Mining Engineer Robert W. Bell, consultant to the Carbondale Redevelopment Authority: "A nasty job-rather dangerous." While working on burning coal, the dragline operators will be only the length of their booms (60 to 90 ft.) away from the hot stuff. Each scoopful will be dumped on high ground and sprayed with water. In many places the hot surface...
LONG-DISTANCE PHONE rates will be cut 5? to 25? per call in mid-September to carry out FCC order for $50 million overall rate slash by Bell System. Sliding-scale reductions will be greater for longer distances, especially for calls over 675 miles, e.g., New York-Chicago for first three minutes will cost $1.45 v. current $1.50 rate; New York-Los Angeles $2.25 v. current...
AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH BELL SYSTEM. Earnings for the quarter ending May 31 jumped to $1.32 a share, v. $1.16 a year earlier. President Frederick R. Kappel said that nearly 800,000 new telephones were connected in the quarter and that long-distance conversations rose more than 10% over last year...
...that its lines were bugged throughout the country. It took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from him. Where wiretapping is illegal, confided one company agent, "there are other ways of getting information. The waiter serving lunch in the man's suite, the telegrams the bell captain might see, the maid who cleans the room, the switchboard operator. These people are paid to keep their eyes and ears open...