The seventh week in the strike of some 35,000 C.I.O. Communications Workers against the Southern Bell Telephone Co. (TIME, May 2) was the most violent yet. Seven Southern Bell exchanges and stations ...

Nov. 5, 1950, in The Star: The Alabama manager for Southern Bell Telephone Company was on the hot seat in Anniston two days ago as members of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors and officers ...

The smartphone has mostly replaced an apparatus once known as the “horn,” “squawk box,” “blower” or “heater,” and at times the vintage device “rang off the hook.” The first words were transmitted via ...

Aug. 16—Aug. 16, 1948, in The Star: Around-the-clock work in a rush job being carried out by the Southern Bell Telephone Company, at a cost of $120,000, will provide residents of East 10th Street and ...