Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ponderous is German bureaucracy. State officials were soon being called on the phone by hundreds of people. Apparently no one woke up to the fact that the Reich's war-will was being rapidly undermined. Finally, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop rushed to the Führer. It was not until 12:30, the hour when the Berlin station had been scheduled to go back on the air anyhow, that an official denial was broadcast from the Reich Chancellery itself-that is, from Adolf Hitler's own headquarters, which never before had stooped to deny a public rumor...
...Chicago, nine minutes before the close of WBBM's Ellery Queen program, a water hose burst in the transmitter cooling system, and WBBM had to go off the air. Almost immediately WBBM's switchboard was swamped with calls, all asking, "Who was the murderer?" The phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
...front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover, Mass.: "Sonny, get your father to the telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This...
Boss of the boys that moved in that night (carrying canvas signs: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DODGE DIVISION) was the husky, jut-jawed Chrysler general manager whom Walter Chrysler described to his biographer, Boyden Sparkes, as "a great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone and when Walter Chrysler called from New York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic...
...telephoning this dispatch to Budapest with the phone in one hand and a gas mask in the other. . . . I can hear the wail of power-diving fighting ships and can see 14 German bombers slowly, steadily following the course of the Vistula River...