Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voice on the Phone. One night last week the telephone rang in Jim Glynn's well-appointed Washington apartment. It was a newspaper photographer asking for his picture. "What' for?" Jim asked. "Maybe you don't know it," said the photographer, "but you've just been indicted, mister...
...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Occasionally John L.'s phone would jangle with news of another victory. Big John would dictate to a press aide a curt communique which concluded with a half-hopeful, half-commanding "More tonnage will sign." The press covered U.M.W. like a military HQ. Almost every night last week, U.M.W. was able to report to the newsmen that another company or two had agreed to boost pay (from $14.05 to $15 a day) and increase royalties for the miners' welfare fund (from 20? to 35? a ton). Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders...
...gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead of a flood of letters demanding "more sales...
Richardson's real phone number is Eliot...