Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the federation (for every pound sterling they pay to the central government, they get back two in subsidies), they look with horror at the example of more prosperous Southern Rhodesia, where a kind of apartheid exists and the blacks are plagued by pass laws. curfews, and even segregated phone booths. Stirring up the Nyasas' restiveness is Dr. Hastings K. Banda, the prosperous physician who returned last summer from a self-imposed exile in London to campaign for freedom (TIME, July 21). He has addressed scores of mass meetings, has stubbornly refused to talk things over with Welensky...
...believe it they did. Among letters from hep engineers who realized that MOLE was a gag were many serious letters seeking information, asking for subcontracts, or jobs on Project MOLE. Eager enthusiasts called by phone. "They wouldn't let us explain what was going on," says Monahan helplessly. "They'd make sure they'd got the right company, -and then go into their sales pitch." One company insisted on being hired to build the launching pad (or sinking site). "One thing it proves," says Monahan, "is that engineers can be awfully gullible. One reason we did this...
...speech did not lack for repercussions. Presaged by phone calls and threatening letters, a time bomb appeared one morning on Curley's doorstep. Investigation revealed it to be the work of Harvard students: a box of peppermints wrapped in a copy of the Boston Herald, to be ignited the ringing of an alarm clock...
While he devises unending eccentricities for his clients, the Bird indulges in few of his own. In his small, two-room office, the Bird allows himself but one flamboyance: two telephones-one green, one red. In accord with Hollywood tradition, the red phone has an unlisted number. On the rare occasions when it rings, the Bird stares at it in sullen suspicion. Has the town finally got his number? Then he relaxes. "No one knows that phone. Must be a wrong number," he says, and refuses to answer...
...General Telephone, the little giant of the phone business, the road up began in 1935 with the reorganization of Associated Telephone Utilities, a bankrupt grab bag of country telephone companies, mostly in the Midwest. Hampered by antique equipment, the company hung on through the '30s and the war years, in 1945 entered the postwar period with 713,453 telephones. The postwar shift to the suburbs and exurbs lifted that to 1,417,109 by 1951, when Power, a Winer Ohio State University economics professor, law partner of Senator John Bricker and general counsel to Ohio's Public Utilities...