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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...
...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...
...line numbers are on the increase -for example, Boston's DE 8-1212, Cleveland's MA 1-1234, St. Louis' CE 1-1212; in some cases they bring police cars screeching to the scene in as little as two minutes. Things would be even simpler if U.S. police had a nationwide number like West Germany's 110 or Britain's 999, which can be dialed unerringly in the dark...