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Show INDEPENDENT BENEFITTED. Agreement Gives Them Use of Thousands Thous-ands of Miles of Bell Company's Lines. Washington. Attorney General Mc-Reynolds Mc-Reynolds told friends Saturday that scores of the independent telephone companies in the United States were gratified with the agreement that the so-called trust has made with the department de-partment of justice, which will give them the use of thousands of miles of trunk lines operated by the Bell companies. The department, he said, hardly could have expected any court to order the Bell company to allow independents to make use of Bell equipment, and there practically was no chance that the independents could raise sufficient funds, if they had the desire, to build competing long distance dis-tance lines. |