Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During her maiden voyage of a year, the 800-bed Consolation will make ports of call where invited, give native doctors a chance to learn the latest American techniques, train medical aides in such fundamentals as vaccinations and blood tests, take patients aboard for treatment, including surgery. In turn, American crew members will get a firsthand look at some of the world's ills...
...private plane between Chicago and Milwaukee, a Chicago businessman took a business call from a customer in Buenos Aires, joining thousands of fast-moving businessmen who have had phones installed in autos, boats, even duck blinds...
Acid Test. A. T. & T. has not only grown up with the nation; it helped it to grow. Every moviegoer who saw Don Ameche star in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell* knows how the first telephone call was made. Bell was no electrician but an elocutionist and teacher of the deaf. He thought that he could devise a mechanical gadget like the human ear to transmit and receive voices by electrical impulse, had a crude instrument made according to his specifications by his assistant, Thomas Watson. Bell was fiddling with the instrument in the attic of a Boston rooming...
...investigation during the '30s, pushed the employee stock-purchase plan that has made company stockholders out of 45% of A. T. & T.'s employees. In 1927 he opened the first commercial service between New York and London over the radiotelephone circuit, and in 1935 sped the first call around the world-and back-to a vice president sitting only 50 feet away...
With energy, enterprise, and a knack for learning fast, Kappel conquered 14 jobs to reach the rank of vice president of Northwestern Bell in 1942. Then came a call to New York, where his mettle was tested in a variety of jobs in operating and engineering. He did so well that in 1954 he got the second biggest job in the Bell System: president of Western Electric. In 1956, to no one's surprise, he was tapped for A. T. & T.'s top job to succeed Cleo Craig...