Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leary is really in the thick of the fight. "People seem to be tickled to death with my platform," he told the CRIMSON, "they all say they're going to vote for me. I'm swamped with phone calls...
...heat of the presidential campaign of 1936, the local Democratic headquarters received a telephone call. '"Say," a voice exclaimed, "tell us just what the principles of the New Deal are-we're having an argument." "Hold the phone," was the answering injunction, followed by a long pause. Then: "Sorry. We're having an argument...
...Kansas City hospital. Leaving a daughter seriously ill with whooping cough, he flew to Kansas City, found his wife better. He received a message that his daughter was worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew back to Kansas City. There Mr. Whisenhunt himself developed, in quick succession, a toothache, ptomaine poisoning, blood-poisoning. At week's end wife and daughter were out of bed, Mr. Whisenhunt...
...something better. Eliminating memory and other human fallibilities from listener-interest testing, Audimeters should tell advertisers just what audience he has and precisely what in his program, if anything, drives an audience away. Independent of telephones, the survey should sample the 13,000,000 radio owners who are without phone service...
...trial and to be used in the rest of the field events at the stadium this spring is a radio-phone, similar to the Princeton loudspeaker, reputedly the best in the country. At one-fifth volume, the amplifier can be heard on Mt. Auburn Street...