Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truck Driver Hooper lowered a rope, but Benny was not strong enough to hold on with one hand. Hooper hurried indoors to call police and the Manorville Fire Department. At the nearby Riverhead telephone exchange, the switchboard buzzed with a sudden burst of emergency calls. For 20 minutes Operator Borghild ("Betty") Hooper was kept busy handling them before it dawned on her that rescue workers were being directed to her home...
...have stacked the cards to make the game as entertaining as possible. Stop the Music telephoned listeners, apparently at random, to give them a chance to name the "mystery tune" and win a growing jackpot, but by the time the broadcast started, the calls were stacked up on the switchboard and auditioned by a program staffer, who put them on the air in the most dramatic order. Just in case enough listeners might not know the mystery tune, tips on its name were planted regularly in Walter Winchell's gossip column-by Stop the Music itself...
Trottenberg emphasized that the present staff of 12 switchboard operators was adequate to handle all calls, but a number of new lines to service the University's 2297 telephones have cramped present headquarters. There are now 937 telephone lines in the system, compared with about 750 five years...
...anyone who has waited for attention in the crowded ticket office or spent twenty minutes getting a "free line" on the HAA switchboard, and to all who have had to make plans for a football weekend an inconvenient two weeks in advance, the Council's proposals will seem reasonable. With these improvements, application deadline could easily be moved up to the Monday before the game...
Judy's forest of switchboard wires would seem to promise wacky complications and entangling alliances in all five boroughs, with some of the offbeat sassiness of an On the Town. But despite bookies posing as musicians, and a dentist who yearns to write songs, despite visits to penthouses and nightclubs, and a rollicking subway ride, Bells Are Ringing-even in its liveliest dancing-sticks to Broadway, Broadway, all evening long...