Word: phoneman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make something out of the telephone company's books. Meanwhile, they had encountered a very rugged character named James Franklin ("Frank") Dees, proprietor of the firm. Aged 60, weighing 200 pounds, his muscular physique topped off by iron-grey hair, an engaging grin and keen brown eyes, Phoneman Frank Dees fought back with a counter-complaint. He asked for permission to raise his rates, discontinue the exchange at nearby Livingston, force subscribers to pay their phone bills. Snapped he: "The kind of service they're gettin' is the kind they're payin...
...with these complainers." Expounding his company's connections, he offered: "My company is in cahoots with the Southern Bell. . . . They get the money and I get the cahoots." Of a subscriber who claimed he had been trying to get a telephone installed for three years, the phoneman asked: "Do you still want it?" Subscriber: "I do." Dees: "I'll be around tomorrow and put it in." When the repair man went around, the man didn't want...
...weeks ago Internationalist Behn saw another hole blasted in his war-scarred income account when the Nazis took over a big I. T. & T. manufacturing plant , in Antwerp, which had exported telephone equipment to Latin America and other I. T. & T. customers abroad. But having made peace with Franco, Phoneman Benn planned to transfer some of the Antwerp business to his Spanish manufacturing plant, which he will expand. On export sales, Franco might be induced to let I. T. & T. keep part of its foreign exchange, show Spanish profits again for U. S. stockholders. For Spain, weak on exportable products...
...present Phoneman Moore is heckling the Michigan Public Service Utilities Commission for a 10% rate rise to cover the cost of making his manual system automatic. Last week he was also planning the installation of telephones in Caro's Hotel Montague. Under the Moore plan each room will have a telephone number listed in the book. After calling the room clerk to discover what room his friend has, the subscriber must hang up and rephone the room direct. That makes the contact twice as expensive...
...Phoneman Moore wears a red toupee, neither smokes nor drinks. Despite the fact that he has scores of friends and once belonged to every available lodge, club and fraternity in the Thumb District, he thinks he is antisocial. Says he: "I am no company for man or beast...