Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of central switchboard equipment has prevented complete service although phones and wires are available, according to Dwyer. There are still 3000 unfilled requests for phones from residents and students of Cambridge, he says, including 300 pre-wired and waiting instruments which the switchboards and central dial phone machinery cannot yet accomodate...
...Night Clerk Comer Rowan sat in for his wife at the switchboard of Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel. It was a dull hour. Out of the front door, cold moonlight flooded deserted Peachtree Street. In his tenth-floor suite, white-thatched, 70-year-old W. Frank Winecoff, who built the hotel in 1913,* slept soundly...
...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...Savoy Hotel last week, 350 convening delegates of the loosely spliced National Federation of Telephone Workers voted themselves a new name and a new power. The name: Communications Workers of America. The power: to clamp a throttling silence on 30,000,000 U.S. telephones with the flip of a switchboard jack. Both will become effective next June, after N.F.T.W.'s autonomous unions ratify the new constitution, formally turn over their sovereign rights to a new national policy board...
While the overwhelming majority of Jewish spokesmen deplored the outrage, an extremist Zionist band known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi took credit for it. Inferentially, it deprecated the loss of life by claiming to have telephoned a warning to the King David's switchboard...