Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financed DEW line cost $500 million and more than a score of lives, mostly fliers who crashed in the gigantic airlift of men and materials to the several dozen radar sites. Last week the main builder, Western Electric Co., turned the line over to International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which will operate it. Manning the remote outposts are 1,000 technicians, nearly 80% of them Canadians. The DEW-liners are confident that no invading aircraft can pass them undetected. In preliminary trials, even birds set the alarm bells ringing...
...most optimistic report came from the biggest company of all: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. "With no letup in activity," announced A.T.& T. President Frederick R. Kappel, the Bell System's second-quarter operating revenues totaled $1.6 billion, with a net income of $208.5 million, both about 10% better than last year and both new records for the quarter. Parent A.T.&.T.'s net alone climbed to a record $167.9 million v. $153.2 million in 1956, might soon be even higher. Said Kappel: "At present, the rate of earnings on the capital invested in the Bell System...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES from California to Hawaii will be laid under Pacific Ocean to supplement radiophone service. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Hawaiian Telephone Co. are spending $37 million on two 2,400-mile cables, which by fall will carry 36 simultaneous conversations, permit direct dialing by operators between Hawaii and 6,500 U.S. communities...
Died. Arthur Brown Jr., 83, topflight architect, longtime official consultant on architectural work in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the architectural commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40), designed San Francisco's City Hall, Opera House and Coit Memorial Tower (atop Telegraph Hill); in Burlingame, Calif...
...Gadsby, 57, was nominated to fill out the remaining term (until June 5, 1958) of Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong, who has resigned to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for finance. A conservative New Englander (Amherst, '23), SECommissioner Gadsby worked for New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. before turning to the law (New York University, '28) and a ten-year berth in the Manhattan law firm of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern. Moving back to New England, he practiced privately in North Adams, Mass. until 1947, when he became a Massachusetts commissioner of public utilities. Though technically only...