History GTE/AE Microwave/carrier [telecom]

I recently found some ads by General Telephone/Automatic Electric on their carrier/microwave offerings. These ran in the Saturday Evening post circa 1960. General Telephone (later General Telephone & Electronics) was an independent company not affiliated with the Bell System. It bought Automatic Electric Co in the late 1950s. Also owned Sylvania.

1) Saturday Evening Post 8/3/57 pg 65 'on the beam' (also see WU ad pg 80)
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2) Saturday Evening Post 5/7/60 pg 79 'phoneways in the sky'

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3) Saturday Evening Post 5/24/58 pg 69 carrier
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4) Saturday Evening Post 7/12/58 pg 74 carrier (also Bell ad on pg 86, WU ad pg 100).

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The following ads give some general background on GTE/AE. Note that while their telephone sets appear similar to Western Electric sets, there were some subtle differences.

5) Saturday Evening Post 12/10/60 pg 8 GTE product line
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6) Saturday Evening Post 6/4/60 AE story (Wausau Insurance)

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You may scroll through the entire issue of all of the above magazines. Interesting ads for televisions, appliances, automobiles, foods, and other consumer products of that era.

Side note: Allis Chalmers had some two-page color ads for power generation and distribution. They may be of interest to readers here:

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