telephone company

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New York City’s telephone company in 1886 published the first Yellow Pages directory of business phone numbers—creating a nearly friction-free way for merchants and customers to find one another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Now aged 40 and a telephone company employee, Klaoudatou is earning the same money - 850 euros a month - she did as a 20- year-old supermarket worker in 2004.

From Reuters • May 15, 2023

Among other activities at Goldman, Mr. Brody advised the U.S. government on the privatization of Conrail and the Mexican government on the privatization of the state telephone company.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

“It was a labor of love,” Amstein said, “mostly done by retired, or in some cases long-serving, telephone company employees.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

When Malcolm X reached home in Long Island, one of his followers, telephoning him there, got, instead, a telephone company operator who said that the OL 1-6320 number was “disconnected.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey