It's horse trading time for miners and operators
The coal strike stalemate drags on as negotiations break off again and again. Both sides face funding woes for the health and welfare trust funds amid rising costs and wildcat strikes. Analysts urge calm, fair panels, and responsible compromise rather than blame as fate of benefits for retired miners looms and calls grow for presidential intervention.
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United Mine Workers
Health and Welfare Fund
Welfare Fund
AT&T the World’s Largest Company in Plain Numbers
The American Telegraph and Telephone Co. is the biggest corporation on earth with 962000 workers and assets near 90 billion dollars. Its vast wire and cable network drives a revenue stream around 35 billion, and 647 million shares are held by 2.9 million stockholders, loyal for about 12 years on average.
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N. D. Kleinfield
New York Times
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
At&t
General Motors
Ford
Gener
al Electric
Chrysler
IBM
Exxon
Ma Bell
AT&T’s Growth Deepens Ties Across American Life
A summary of the rise of American Telephone and Telegraph, its 23 affiliated companies, Bell Laboratories and Western Electric, from its Bell origin in 1876 to a giant shaping daily life. The phone becomes central to American life with about 500 million calls daily and households relying on it as a core link.
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At&t
Brainrich Bell Laboratories
Western Electric
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell Telephone Co
Bell
United States
Broadway Joe Namath and the rise of modern football
Broadway Joe Namath transformed professional football from a rugged game into a media spectacle. His on field success with the Jets and his off field persona elevated the sport, turning him into a celebrity and changing the public's view of football forever.
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Joe Willie Namath
New York Jets
Baltimore Colts
Jets
Mr. Namath
Dick Butkus
AT&T 29 Story Headquarters Details 1913 to 1924
A profile of AT&T headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan describes its 29 story neoclassical building with a bronze symbol, offices on the 26th floor, and 3,300 phones. The Bell System under AT&T oversees 128 million phones, with 29 million outside Bell territories. The empire employs 6,500 job roles and a $19 billion payroll, averaging $15,505, with top pay at $571,760. Pay phones total 1.3 million, handling about 6 billion conversations yearly, and the busiest pay phone near Penn Station handles 5,500 uses monthly.
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At&t
Manhattan
Financial District
Broadway
Wall Street
Telephone Company
Bell System
Metroliner
Coast Guard
Louisiana
Florida
Long Island
New York
Penn Station
The Bell System: Size, Reach, and Ridiculous Scale
The Bell System is vast with 120 million telephone directories annually 2 899 directories totaling 400000 tons of paper Houston hosts the largest directory at 2200 pages 770000 listings and Paron Arkansas the smallest with 150 listings AT&T faces antitrust scrutiny and paid 51 million to address equality concerns since 1973 It raises about 1 billion every 90 days in capital markets and has spanned 1945 to 1964 to accumulate wealth It owns 24000 buildings 177000 vehicles and maintains 4000 garages It operates Manufacturers Junction Railway and has a huge annual meeting turnout with 3000 expected attendees but frequent no shows due to geography The company insists it may keep growing with no real limits felt by insiders
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Bell System
Houston
Smith
Paron
Ark
At&t
United States
Britain
Southern Bell
Atlanta
Bell
Manufacturers Junction Railway
Western Electric
Hawthorne
Chicago
Frank Hutson
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Lindsay Schaub
John C. Gardner
William B. Cox Jr
John deButts
Hawaii
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