Word: phoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Newsmen, calling Bronx citizens, got day-by-day communiqués on the battle. They also got a few rebukes. One citizen shouted into the phone: "Listen, mister, this is a delicatessen. With all these people lined up for cold cuts, I should talk to you about cockroaches...
...publisher wondered where he could find his old pal Lord Beaverbrook, then in the U.S. Dickson picked up a phone and had the answer in two minutes, from White House sources. Gannett was impressed. Dickson looked like...
...seven-year-old bill from Manhattan's de luxe Hotel Ambassador. The bill ($2,500) represented the unpaid balance of $8,500 which Pola had run up for cash advances (upwards of $4,500), flowers, beauty-parlor charges, drugs, telegrams, phone calls, etc. But hotel bills were not all. She was also being dunned for $1,705.30 by Couturiere Hattie Carnegie, Inc. for purchases which included $10 handkerchiefs, $425 white satin dresses, a two-piece chiffon lace chemise and panties costing $55. To her creditors Pola simply explained that she had no cash, no jewels, no furniture, and that...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had lately christened a barge at Port Angeles, Wash., got a phone call after she arrived in Seattle : a diver had gone to the bottom of the harbor, brought up the handbag she had dropped (with her plane ticket, money and eyeglasses...
...plant, as well as the limping Baltimore factory, worked night & day, while their supervisory staffs took cat naps on the floor. Army bombers took the last 22,000 lb. of production to the seaboard. By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, June 11, just two weeks after the first Army phone call and only seven hours after it left Standard's Pittsburgh plant, the final vat was stowed away and North Africa-bound. The whole thing happened so fast that no one even thought to talk about contracts and cost. But by last week, with the new invasion an amphibious...