What’s in a Name? This Time, Irony

Regarding “AT&T; Will Make Residential Phones in Singapore” (Briefly, July 6), the story said the company also reported that it is “closing the residential telephone assembly lines at its Shreveport, La., plant. The closing means 877 Shreveport workers will be laid off. In Singapore, 1,000 workers will be hired to work in a facility that will open in 1986.”

“AMERICAN” Telephone & Telegraph Co.?

HASKELL COLLIER

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