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Of some 6,500 independent telephone companies that operate about 20% of the U.S.'s 22,600,000 telephones, the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., of Rockcastle County, Ky., is certainly not the best. Most of its null subscribers suffer old-fashioned wall crank phones. Once a break in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Dees Goes to Town | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

But the studio engineers kept talking to him over the hookup (a telephone line from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, short-wave radio to New York), just as reporters covering important stories used to file the Bible over the wire between developments to keep control of their telegraph connections. At 5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

No more definite than that were the other generalizations of the four-day gathering and boat trip. Bankers saw small chance of Government agencies taking over their functions, denounced Federal deficits, deplored the growth of the Government-inspired U. S. "gimme" attitude, felt that no long-run good would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Looking around anxiously, Vag spied his brother at the hot dog stand, and hurried over in time to hear him say, "Gimme a dog with all the trimmins, mister." Vag didn't remember Billy's ever cating a wienie before, but after all, if he wanted to go and get...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

"This committee here-the National Labor Party-I was locked up 48 hours-on which they had no ground to hold me. They are just driving me to do something wrong. You don't gimme a square deal for my wife and children." "Of course," added the witness thoughtfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rand, Bergoff & Chowderhead | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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