Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would advertisers help foot the bills? Said Manager Brecher: "If we get the listenership we expect, they'll be glad to," And the audience was even greater than expectations: within two days, WQQW had some 350 letters, 150 postcards, countless phone calls. The most enthusiastic listener: a dentist. The music, said he, soothed his patients while he drilled into their molars...
Gradually Morgenthau made the record more complete. He included photostats of thousands of letters, transcripts of press conferences, speech drafts with changes in the President's hand, recorded conversations of every official phone call. (Of telephone talks with the President, the Secretary recorded only his own side.) He either dictated, or wrote in his own barely legible hand, an account of Cabinet meetings and all his dealings with Roosevelt. Each war year takes 100 volumes or more...
...winning fabric was a simple crossbar pattern woven by San Francisco's Designer Dorothy Liebes. She wove her winner with cotton, mohair and rayon. In other designs, she sometimes blends silk, bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee...
Single non-veteran students will still be the last to enjoy the luxury of a private phone, however, as the telephone office has retained the War Production Board's priority system although the official controls were lifted on January...
Prime Minister King, who had been keeping in close touch by phone, rushed in the first team, trained to the minute on political promises. With no preliminary warning, it showed up at a Liberal rally in the Simard-owned Sorel Theater...