Word: nashwauk
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...contrast to 1947, when a walkout of 370,000 workers snarled the nation's telephone communications for 44 days, the 84-million-phone Bell System is now all but invulnerable to shutdown by strike. Only 18 of Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from...
Sirs: Well, anyway, poor Henry has one distinction: he was the first of our Vice Presidents to be "assassinated" in office. C. J. HARVEY Nashwauk, Minn...
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