Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Bonn and Paris embassies, the U.S. delegation will borrow about 100 hands: stenographers and switchboard operators, code clerks and receptionists, chauffeurs and cooks. One unlisted member of the U.S. delegation will be White House Stenographer Jack Romagna, one of the fastest shorthand-writers in the world, who took notes outside F.D.R.'s bedroom during the frantic U.S. Cabinet meeting in the first crowded hours after Pearl Harbor...
...hard school of the Depression brings out the spunky strain in Auntie Mame. With her income down to $200 a month, she opens an artsy-craftsy shop, the Maison Moderne, only to see it burn to the ground without insurance. On her first day as a switchboard operator, "she nearly electrocuted herself and was home in time for lunch." But a job selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil...
...exactly, outside phone connections with Udall were broken. It turned out that the twister had hit at that moment. Operator Mary Taylor died at her switchboard and her son Eddie died in his pool parlor. So did six other men. Of Udall's 610 people, 73 were killed. Eighty-five were missing and unaccounted for. More than 200 were injured. Of the houses, 170 were smashed to bits, 16 damaged beyond repair and only one left unscathed. Almost all property and automobiles were wrecked. The city hall, three churches, the old grade school and new $250,000 high school...
...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...
Emergency care when the clinic is closed will be given by a group of specially selected doctors who will be notified by the University switchboard operator. The Hygiene Department will arrange for hospital care, Farnsworth said, but not assume responsibility for expenses. Laboratory service during the summer session will be available at cost...