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...lunches. Some had passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...
...some jobs-typing, switchboard operation, clerical duty-WAACs not only relieve soldiers for combat duty, they also do the jobs better. In these chores a WAAC relieves one soldier or even one and a-half. But as an automobile driver one WAAC is equal to only three-quarters of a soldier. Reason: less physical endurance...
...Department's colossal headquarters building across the Potomac from Washington was no longer the $85,000,000 butt of jokes by capital wags. The Pentagon building was a focus of statistical bewilderment: population capacity 40,000; a telephone switchboard big enough for a city of 125,000; enough pavement for a 24-ft. roadway 49 miles long, including parking space for 8,000 cars...
With electron tubes any combat unit, even a plane streaking across the night sky above the clouds, is in close touch with its command post. Army headquarters in Australia, Iceland, Tunisia, China are neighboring plugs on a single electronic switchboard...
Around Counsellor Simon flows the colorful traffic of a busy law office-phones and buzzers, motley clients, miscellaneous secretaries, law clerks, switchboard operators, a snooty wife and a doting mother. All this adds so much in the way of atmosphere and excitement that it could hardly be better if it rang true...