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Nevertheless, the Gray Old Lady of Filbert Street will be missed. Founded in 1847 as Cummings' Evening Telegraphic Bulletin, it made history with its inaugural edition by publishing the first telegraph report in a U.S. newspaper, a dispatch from the Mexican War. The Bulletin was not so fast on the circulation front. When Businessman William McLean bought it in 1895, it was last in a field of 13 city dailies, and sold for 2?. McLean cut the price in half and increased coverage of local news. By 1905 the paper was the city's largest; by 1947, with...
...Staley, president of New York Telephone: "I cannot say that I will be left in an unhappy job. It is just that after 35 years in the Bell System there is a feeling that something has been lost." Said Greg Anderson, 30, a telephone repairman with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in San Francisco: "The workers are troubled by the lack of information. There has just been none. The whole thing has been pretty shady." Added Leonard Moody, 38, a systems repairman in Los Angeles: "I think the telephone company is one of the few things in this country that still...
...millions, the picture of Alexander Graham Bell on each share of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock is as soothing and comforting as that of George Washington on the dollar bill. The firm's 812.8 million shares are owned by 3,026,000 people and institutions, more than the population of Los Angeles or more than the stockowners of any other U.S. company. General Motors is not even a close second with almost 1.2 million...
...reward is being offered directly by the Websters, although at least a portion of it is reportedly being supplied by George Webster's employer, International Telephone and Telegraph, Inc. (ITT). Webster said Sunday that ITT security personnel were helping him to monitor police progress in the investigation...
American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines are the Brobdingnagians of business and tower over their industries. Both have dominated their fields by sound management, outstanding products and sheer size. Portraits of the two titans...