Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work day over, Benton still has bounce to spare. He easily handles four bourbon highballs before dinner, invites all his friends to join him. "I like to get drunk," he says, "and talk...
...phones, more than half of the 117,800,000 in the world. Each day in the U.S., 245 million telephone conversations hum over the wires, more than 500 calls a year for every person. At any second of the business day, more than 2,000,000 people are talking on U.S. phones. What do they talk about...
Even farther down the road is the ultimate dream in telephone service once described by Harold S. Osborne, former chief engineer of A. T. & T.: "Whenever a baby is born anywhere in the world, he is given at birth a telephone number for life. As soon as he can talk, he is given a watchlike device with ten little buttons on one side and a screen on the other. When he wishes to talk with anyone in the world, he will pull out the device and punch on the keys the number. Then, turning the device over, he will hear...
Bell was quick to realize that the whole world would some day talk with his invention. (He hoped that the entire nation would one day sing The Star-Spangled Banner in unison over the telephone.) But he left the commercial development of his gadget to a group of friends and associates, retired to his laboratory to improve his magic box, continued his work for the deaf...
Despite the talk of inflation, U.S. prices are remarkably steady. The Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale-price index last week stood at 119.4% of the 1947-49 average, a shade above the December level and only a fraction above a year ago. Several major raw materials even registered sharp decreases. Lead was marked down from 12? to 11? per Ib. when the metal piled up despite import quotas. Because of a worldwide glut in oil, British Petroleum Co. lopped 18? per bbl. off the price of Mideast oil. Creole Petroleum cut 5? to 15? off the price of Venezuelan...