Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit reporters and photographers have learned to expect gas and clubs as a matter of routine. During the Flint strike Reporter Gay Girardin of the Detroit Times was at a phone inside the Chevrolet plant talking to his city editor when rioting started. Tear and nausea gas clouds rolled in on him as he continued phoning his story, coughing and vomiting. Once he looked up to see a striker coming at him with a club. Girardin stopped the club in mid-air with a "Hello Tony." Most thoughtful Labor expert to emerge in Detroit has been lanky, young, bespectacled Reporter...
Results of the crew races and baseball games will be posted at the Crimson Building after each contest. Phone Kir. 2811 for these results or tune in to Station WCOP between 7 and 8 o'clock...
...Phone the CRIMSON (Kir. 2811) or listen to Station WCOP, between 7 and 8 o'clock...
...then proceeded to do precisely what the alert obstetrician at the other end of the line told her to do. After eight minutes of this Mrs. Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, snatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk to Mrs. Nelson again." For five more minutes Mrs. Nelson followed telephoned directions, bore her second son, sighed. "Thank you, doctor," and hung...
...meet a pressing problem of finances, "The Harvard Monthly" recently held a special board meeting. Just when the meeting seemed domed to failure the phone rang. A Santa Claus was on the line in the person of one Mr. Galacar, who wanted to buy an interest in the magazine...