The Bell Company

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.thebellcompany.com

Its name may not ring a bell, but The Bell Company has a sound career as a regional construction and engineering company. The firm has completed hundreds of complex mechanical heavy projects, including the Pentagon's Heating and Refrigeration Plant, Fitzsimons Energy Plant in Denver, the Army Research Lab in Aberdeen, Maryland, and the Canaan US Penitentiary in Waymar, Pennsylvania. Bell also engages in civil, design/build, environmental, general construction, and nuclear technology projects across the eastern US. It has its own pipe and skid/modular fabrication facilities. J.P. Bell founded The Bell Company in 1940.

Officers:
President: Commercial & Heavy Construction

Competitors:
Bechtel
Michael Baker
Parsons Corporation

Bell, The (1940-1954), a monthly literary and cultural journal founded by Sean O'Faolain, who was editor until 1946, with Peadar O'Donnell as business manager, and later editor when O'Faolain signed off. Many contemporary Irish writers contributed. Besides poetry and fiction, The Bell offered commentary on social, political, and cultural issues. In the first issue O'Faolain promised that the journal would stand ‘for Life before any abstraction, in whatever magnificent words it may clothe itself’. It frequently challenged the notion of Irish nationhood and the simplistic views of Irishness it fostered, attacking also the literary censorship sponsored by the new State.