Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of machine-hours per job, 4) the operation expected of the machine, 5) the weight of the part to be machined. If there were an alphabetical code to express these facts, any man with a machine could look up its war uses like a number in the phone book...
...midst of all this speculation, Ed Kelly got a phone call from the White House. In 20 minutes he was on a train, bound for Washington. He edged into the White House by the family entrance, talked with Franklin Roosevelt for almost an hour. What they said was a darker wartime secret than the President's conversation with Winston Churchill. But when Ed Kelly left the White House, he looked as if his commander in chief had told him he could go on scrubbing floors...
...Indians "hang" (loiter) in the phone booths in the lobby. Those who hit luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...
...Album reserves the right to use all the entries, and have access to all negatives. Contestants should leave their name, address, and phone number on each print, and there is no limit to the number of entries...
...John and other newsmen worked desperately to follow the Yugoslav Government, first to Vranyska Banya, then to Sarajevo. Above every thing else they wanted a chance to send their reports to Britain and the U.S. But all phone lines were shut and the only radio station operating, as far as the correspondents could learn, was a tiny portable transmitter which belonged to a British diplomat. This was in use 24 hours a day pounding out messages asking for reinforcements from Greece, but finally the correspondents persuaded the operator to send a single 100-word dispatch signed with all their names...