Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peekskill, N. Y. (population 18,400) last week published a plan for foiling patients who try to wheedle free medical advice over the telephone. The 25 Peekskill doctors, practically all of whom are general practitioners including Hickson Field Hart, 66, city mayor, agreed to charge $1 for every phone consultation. Their other fees are representative of what medical charges are in communities of Peekskill's size: $2 for office consultations; $3 for office consultations after regular hours; $3 for residence or hospital visits in daytime, $4 after...
DISRAELI (George Arliss)-Epigramo-phone record of the purchase of the Suez Canal...
...particularly desire," said Mr. Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters, and we indulge the hope that this football game will quickly engender an intersectional fraternalism between Harvard and the Southwest which could not be brought about by formalism and purely academic interchanges and contacts. Harvard...
...Gary Phone. Supreme in the U. S. telephone field is Bell, subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph. Supreme among independent phone companies became the Theodore Gary interests of Kansas City, which last week bought control of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. of St. Paul, Dakota Central Telephone Co. of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and eight other companies. Tri-State operates about 165,000 telephones, earns some $1,200,000 per annum, is valued at between...
...Vaughan, eager to learn what Crimson teams have done this year, wrote to the publicity office of the H. A. A.; and in reply a complete summary of Harvard's victories and defeats will be broadcast from Schenectady Saturday or Sunday evening, probably on the low-wave radio-phone transmitter...