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From: paul@alice.UUCP (Paul Krzyzanowski)
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Subject: Re: "One System, One Policy, Universal Service"
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Date: 12 Feb 90 17:26:57 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 97, message 7 of 7


The Bell System had a lot of great ads.  One of my favorites is
"Weaving the World of Speech", which appeared in 1933:

  "Daily, as upon a magic loom, the world is bound together
  by telephone.  There, in a tapestry of words, is woven the
  story of many lives and the pattern of countless activities.
  
  In and out of the switchboard move the cords that intertwine
  the voices of communities and continents.  Swiftly, skilfully,
  the operator picks up the thread of speech and guides it
  across the miles.
  
  She moves a hand and your voice is carried over high mountains
  and desert sands, to moving ships, or to lands across the
  seas.  London, Paris, Berlin -- Madrid, Rome, Bucharest --
  Capetown, Manila, Sydney -- Lima, Rio Janeiro and Buenos Aires --
  these and many other cities overseas are brought close to you
  by telephone.  .... ...."
  
"Of all the things you buy, probably none gives so much
 for so little as the telephone."  (1931)

They don't write them like that anymore.


	-Paul Krzyzanowski 
	 paul@allegra.att.com