Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...
Bedlam. In the over-the-counter market, which operates by telephone, the pace grew frantic enough to overstrain physical facilities and disrupt trading. "It's absolute bedlam," said one dealer whose entire switchboard lit up at once. "We just pulled all the cords out and started fresh." Other brokers encountered long delays reaching marketmakers. Such tie-ups often hurt investors, as prices rise before their orders can be placed. Goodbody & Co. stopped giving quotations and White, Weld & Co. halted its over-the-counter operations an hour before the new and foreshortened 3:30 p.m. official closing time. Despite...
...equipped with three tiny keyboards, stacked like the manuals of a pipe organ; vines of wires drooped down from their sockets. It looked like a kiddie's toy piano hooked up to a telephone switchboard...
...static in phone service. Beyond a rash of minor sabotage that damaged cables and equipment, the only major effect was a suspension of new phone installations as Bell System companies kept skeleton repair crews close to central offices. Filling in for striking operators, gravel-voiced executives on twelve-hour switchboard shifts were all thumbs at first, but by week's end most were well on the way to mastering their temporary tasks...
...Fatal Day. On April 3-the day before King was murdered-Gait registered at Memphis' Rebel Motel, and his Mustang was seen parked near Room 34. Clerks said that Gait made no telephone calls through their switchboard, but the lights in the room stayed on all night. Next day John Willard-an alias used by Gait-rented Room 5 in the sleazy rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot...