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The phone book: What the telephone company would rather you not know 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS equals the combined gross na-<br >tional product of Belgium, Denmark, and Finland, or the cost<br >of four years of bloodletting in the First World War, or the<br >amount U. S. corporations paid in taxes over the past two<br >years. In 1975, the Telephone Company had assets of just<br >over sixty billion dollars....<br >NINETY-THREE MILLION MILES is the distance from the<br >earth to the sun. A ray of light traveling at 186,000 miles per<br >second takes more than eight minutes to cover that distance.<br >By 1974, the Telephone Company was using enough cable<br >and wire to reach from the earth to the sunmand back againm<br >three times, with several million miles to spare<br >TWENTY-FIVE STATES lie<br >Sb~ Mississippi River. q~he<br >between the Atlantic Ocean and<br >"[ e Le~ ~ue ~om~au~ usa use&<br >enough plastic in the manufacture of telephone sets to cover<br >all twenty-five with one quarter inch of high-impact un-<br >breakable styrene<br >IN FIVE YEARS, 157,680,000 seconds of time pass into his-<br >tory. In 1973, the Telephone Company handled one long dis-<br >tance call for every second of time in a five-year period<br >IN 1973, Chrysler, A & P, R C A, Phillips Petroleum, S.S.<br >Kresge, Boeing, International Harvester, Woolworth s, Grey-<br >hound, Firestone, Litton, and General Foods, among others,<br >each reported annual profits of less than $150,000,000. In that<br >same year, the Telephone Company wrote offmas being<br >uncollectable--debts of $150,000,000<br ><br >
The phone book: What the telephone company would rather you not know 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书