Word: splicer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tireless executive, Fred Kappel first went to work for the Bell System in 1924 as a $25-a-week groundman fresh out of the University of Minnesota, where he helped pay his way by drumming in a jazz band. Kappel soon ran the gamut of line-crew jobs from splicer to circuit tester, by 1934 was a full-fledged engineer in the Nebraska-South Dakota area. He did so well there that he was called into Northwestern Bell's headquarters at Omaha, where he was promoted to vice president in 1942. Seven years later he was shifted again, this...
...practice of his day. It soon became obvious that precious little could be skipped without first being thoroughly examined. Now, with funds from the Knights of Columbus, Daly and Donnelly have eight electric cameras going at the Vatican, as well as two big developers, a printer and an electric splicer. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, a committee of 62 businessmen, including Roman Catholics. Protestants and Jews, is raising the millions necessary for the big Pope Pius XII library. And a national committee, headed by Houston