Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Befitting the owner of a telephone system-and as an example to niggardly one-phone customers-Mr. Moore has 23 telephones, 17 direct lines (seven more phones, 14 more lines than A. T. & T. President Walter Gifford) in his ten-room rococo Caro house. All but one (a living-room extension) have individual listings and numbers in the phone books. Friends acquainted with the phoneman's habits can, by calling Caro, Mich., 583, catch him in Bathroom No. 3. A request for 584 will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with...
...years students of taxation have fought "intangible" taxes, i.e., Federal and State tariffs on gasoline, theatre tickets, perfumes, cigarets, restaurant checks and long-distance phone calls. Their argument : U. S. citizens should be taxed openly, directly, painfully, if tax reforms are ever to be made. Politicians have merely grinned, gone ahead passing tax bills that make taxation seem painless...
...back!" he told a War Office messenger, and to reporters who rushed to his small suburban estate at Wimbledon Common he mysteriously confided, "This is very big, much bigger than you imagine-it had to come." Over the weekend Bachelor Hore-Belisha refused to answer his ceaselessly jangling phone, slit open with satisfaction scores of telegrams and cables of sympathy and indignation, many from U. S. citizens. Good or bad, the reasons for the dramatic ouster of War Secretary Hore-Belisha, which caught the British public wholly unprepared and raised a world furor, were easily grasped by military...