Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 8,000 phone extensions in the system, and 500 more instruments connected on these lines. This is quite different from the situation up to 1908 when there were only two telephones in the College, in the Dean's Office and in the Publications Department. That year the first switchboard went into operation in University 3. It had only 40 stations, and no power for ringing bells, so operators had to use hand cranks. When the women complained about this added labor, the Buildings and Grounds Department replied that putting in power would require "needless expense." Finally...
Scores of Long Islanders flooded the Newsday switchboard with telephone calls to do something about what Newsday called "dogdom's Dachau." At week's end, a citizens' committee had formed, and 100 anti-Roeper petitions were circulating...
...controlled railroad spiderweb radiating from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...
...Joseph P. McNulty, U.S. official in charge of former Reich property, came the heads of West Berlin city government agencies, in search of office space. Would he requisition the Reichsbahn-Direktion building? Wholly within his and the U.S.'s legal rights, McNulty agreed on one condition: the Soviet switchboard was to continue functioning. Then he signed his orange-colored Notice of Requisition, gave it to the city officials to post on the building. U.S. Commandant Major General Maxwell D. Taylor was not notified, nor was Taylor's superior in Frankfurt, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy...
...Soviet answer became painfully plain. Berlin's elevated system, which is operated by the Soviet-controlled railroads, ran its trains 40 minutes apart in West Berlin. Angry riders jammed so tightly that glass panes were shattered. Communist rail officials explained: "[There had been] interference with the phone switchboard at the Direktion . . . We are reducing traffic to avoid catastrophes." This was an unvarnished lie: General Taylor showed correspondents (including embarrassed Communist reporters) the automatic board, clicking and blinking away as ever, and unimpaired...