Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former employee of Ma Bell, I read your article on the many wonders of A.T. & T. with pride. The wonderful works and human side of this great company would fill volumes...
...eleven years, grumpy Charlie had ramrodded the Bronx Democratic ma chine he inherited from Franklin...
Measure of Influence. Two other ma chine men were stopped in New York last week. In the 21st Congressional District, Chief Buckley Lieutenant and five-term Representative James C. Healey lost 20,000 to 22,000 to Reformer James H. Scheuer. In Greenwich Vil lage, onetime Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio lost a second bid to regain his district leadership to Attorney Edward I. Koch in a 5,904 to 5,740 vote. In one exception, however, 19th District Congressman Leonard Farbstein, an oldtime Tammany politician, turned back reform Challenger William Haddad, 35, with 19,851 votes to Haddad...
...fewer 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...
...words and letters of the ma chine's vocabulary* were originally spoken into a recording device by Walter Jennison, a Teleregister Corp. engineer who could speak with the necessary clarity. Then the words were recorded on a revolving magnetic drum. What the computer does is to extract the latest quotations from its continually refurbished memory, translate them into the proper words taken from the drum, and transmit them to the listening broker over the telephone line. It makes no mistakes, never gets tired, and costs $100 per month...