Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such "place" is called Project Place, and it's for runaways and street people who don't have any other one. They operate a 24-hour 7-day-a-week emergency switchboard, and a referral service to get kids shrinks and jobs and bail, and all the other things kids tend to need. They also have a crash pad and a runaway house and a drug education program for high-schools...
...result, brokers are in a depression of their own. Relatively light trading volume and sagging prices have cut into their commission income. "Our switchboard operator is making more money than we are," says Joe Griffith, a Dallas broker. Bache & Co. recently laid off about 500 employees, and the American Stock Exchange dropped 100. Two major firms, McDonnell & Co. and Gregory & Sons, have closed their doors; several others are reported to be in trouble because of insufficient capital. A number of them may be forced into shotgun mergers. The New York Stock Exchange last week began steps to increase the trust...
According to the White House switchboard, calls ran 6 to 1 in the President's favor. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, who cheerlessly supported the President, took a different reading. Telegrams to his office were 20 to 1 against the Cambodian expedition...
University police, as well as units from the Cambridge police and fire departments, yesterday searched the ten-story building after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb would go off within a half-hour. The call was immediately reported to University police by the personnel office switchboard, which received...
...accounting), the poor, the greedy, the curious and the con men swarmed to his house in Scarsdale, N.Y., to stand in the 10° cold, waiting for handouts. The telephone company finally had to give him a new, unlisted phone number; incoming calls were paralyzing the local switchboard. In Manhattan, Brody rented an office on Broadway as a clearinghouse for his largesse. Ed Sullivan introduced him on television as "the wonderfully generous Michael James Brody," and the lad loosely strummed his guitar and sang a Bob Dylan song...