"BELIEVE me, fitting all the new dial and manual switchboard equipment and long distance facilities into Bell System central offices all around the country is keeping me mighty busy!
"In a single big dial exchange there may be 4,000 miles of wire. I may have to solder 2,500,000 connections before everything's ready for you to dial a number.
If the bombing had been pushed back a year, do you think the war would have lasted? If not, then you could make the case that Japan got nuked because this guy was trying to build a uranium light bulb. Also, I find the exclamation point at the end of this sentence strangely disturbing: (Little [...]
Bookkeeping records seldom show the true costs of eye accidents—merely compensation and medical expense. However, the "hidden" costs* (machinery and work damage, idle time and lowered worker morale, to name but a few) are estimated— by a recognized authority—to be four times the amount of the direct cost of eye accidents.
It’s been quite a while since a company would use an image of factories spewing carbon dust into the atmosphere in a positive context for one of their ads. Of course at the CEI they just call it life. These furnaces are a long way from a tire maker’s plant, yet they are an important [...]
