. Bell telephone magazine . onsare, respectively. Southeast Arabia,South America, Africa — for bothDahomey and Malawi — and theWest Indian Ocean.) Other places which claim a sin-gle AT&T share owner residentinclude Cambodia, Singapore,Greenland, Angola, British Guiana,Paraguay, Albania, Crete, Iceland,Algeria, French West Africa, IvoryCoast, Madagascar, Mozambique,Sierra Leone, Southwest Africa, theSudan Republic, Tanzania andZambia. Of the AT&T share owners whotend toward sea and surf, one eachlives on the British South Solomons,Wake Island, the Caroline Islands,the Mariana Islands, and the M
. Bell telephone magazine . onsare, respectively. Southeast Arabia,South America, Africa — for bothDahomey and Malawi — and theWest Indian Ocean.) Other places which claim a sin-gle AT&T share owner residentinclude Cambodia, Singapore,Greenland, Angola, British Guiana,Paraguay, Albania, Crete, Iceland,Algeria, French West Africa, IvoryCoast, Madagascar, Mozambique,Sierra Leone, Southwest Africa, theSudan Republic, Tanzania andZambia. Of the AT&T share owners whotend toward sea and surf, one eachlives on the British South Solomons,Wake Island, the Caroline Islands,the Mariana Islands, and the Mar-shall Islands. That is. we presumethey tend toward sea and surf. Itmay very well be, of course, thatthey have the same romantic re-gard for the concrete and asphaltof the more congested civilizationsthat we harbor for the long rollersand the untracked sand of theirlegendary shores. Of the entire AT&T share ownerpopulation, women continue to out-number men by nearly two to than ,000 women own. the stock outright as individuals,and another 933,000 own stockjointly with their husbands. Only alittle more than 606,000 men ownstock in their names alone. Whilethere is concern for liberation orequality in other areas of our na-tional life, that statistic could sug-gest that in the AT&T family, atleast, women are clearly in the cat-bird seat. Other data show that nearly 80percent of the AT&T owners ownless than 200 shares of the com-panys stock; that more than halfown less than 60 shares; and that athird own 20 shares or less. Itsplain to see, therefore, that AT&Tshares, once labeled the Widowsand Orphans Stock, are not onlythe most widely held in the nation,but are held primarily by Mr. & Citizen. The fact that so many hold smallblocks of stock in no way dimin-ishes their interest in the way thebusiness is run. Far from it. Unlikesome other companies, the vast ma-jority of our share owners are alsocustomers of the business, and theyhave a double reason
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