Word: phoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...merely keeping up with the wanderings of myriad graduates were not enough, the office is beseiged by a constant stream of telephone calls and mail queries about Alumni, living or dead. "We average more than 30 phone calls a day," stated Miss Patton, who has been in charge of the Office since the fall...
What was the President going to do about the phone strike? Would he veto a tough labor bill? What about prices? What about Henry Wallace? While the questions went unanswered, insouciant Harry Truman ducked his regular press conference and had a week...
...telephone workers of Woodward, Okla., the phone strike ended the moment they could dig out from the debris of last fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...
...being classified as emergency, the long-distance call from Cincinnati got through last week. It interrupted a strategy meeting of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Branch Rickey picked up the phone, grunted "Hello," and listened. From a lifetime's practice he managed to keep what was in his mind from showing on his face. Said he to the Dodger road secretary: "Chandler has fined...
...chance razzle-dazzle ever seen in the radio game. When other networks feared to transcribe big nighttime shows, ABC risked it; last week ABC's transcribed Bing Crosby show got one of the top Hooperatings: 25.8. Last fall a quick-thinking young ABC executive jumped to the phone the moment he finished reading John Hersey's Hiroshima in the New Yorker, got exclusive broadcast privileges for ABC from the magazine. This week Hiroshima won ABC a Peabody Award (see below...