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Root of the confusion was a labor-management dispute involving only 8,000 men-members of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers, who install switchboard equipment for the Bell System. They wanted a long-sought raise of $6 a week, plus a promise to negotiate a postwar increase. When their demands were turned down, they walked out, threw a picket line around any telephone exchange they found handy. Most of the 25,000 long-lines operators and some local operators refused to cross the line...
...Palmer House has lately roused complaints among Chicagoans that it suffers from the pains of age, a crochety management and decrepit service. (One resident used to wire his wife from his office because he said he could not reach her by phone through the hotel switchboard...
...letter arrived about midmorning. By noon, thanks to motherly Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby, 60, who minded the village switchboard in the parlor of her white frame house, everyone in Geetingsville, Ind. (pop. 27) knew what the letter said: "Dear Mom and Dad: This is awful hard to tell. My chaplain told me to write and tell you that I am charged with murder and have been sentenced to be shot. Get an attorney and try to have this sentence reduced." It was signed...
...apartment above his plant for their editorial offices. Copyreaders toiled in the living room. Managing Editor Thomas Sherman (who edits the Post-Dispatch Sunday editorial page), his society department and a Transradio news ticker were bunched in the dining room. In an alcove off the hall was the telephone switchboard, and classified-ad takers labored in the kitchen. The sports and financial departments got the bedroom. The bathroom was shared...
Telephones. Applications for phones-about 2,600,000-should be filled by early 1946, if the switchboard-equipment shortage does not interfere...