The phone book: What the telephone company would rather you not know

ISBN: 9780809280087

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SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS equals the combined gross na-
tional product of Belgium??? Denmark??? and Finland??? or the cost
of four years of bloodletting in the First World War??? or the
amount U. S. corporations paid in taxes over the past two
years. In 1975??? the Telephone Company had assets of just
over sixty billion dollars....
NINETY-THREE MILLION MILES is the distance from the
earth to the sun. A ray of light traveling at 186???000 miles per
second takes more than eight minutes to cover that distance.
By 1974??? the Telephone Company was using enough cable
and wire to reach from the earth to the sunmand back againm
three times??? with several million miles to spare
TWENTY-FIVE STATES lie
Sb~ Mississippi River. q~he
between the Atlantic Ocean and
\"[ e Le~ ~ue ~om~au~ usa use&
enough plastic in the manufacture of telephone sets to cover
all twenty-five with one quarter inch of high-impact un-
breakable styrene
IN FIVE YEARS??? 157???680???000 seconds of time pass into his-
tory. In 1973??? the Telephone Company handled one long dis-
tance call for every second of time in a five-year period
IN 1973??? Chrysler??? A & P??? R C A??? Phillips Petroleum??? S.S.
Kresge??? Boeing??? International Harvester??? Woolworth s??? Grey-
hound??? Firestone??? Litton??? and General Foods??? among others???
each reported annual profits of less than $150???000???000. In that
same year??? the Telephone Company wrote offmas being
uncollectable--debts of $150???000???000