Word: switchboards
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...ladies in charge, Mrs. Pitcher and Mrs. Sullivan, didn't mind the additional phone calls relayed to them by the master switchboard in Lehman Hall; they are used to handling the hundreds of queries that come in daily, through mail, telegraph, phone and person, earthquake or not, and as a matter of fact prefer to receive one-track inquiries. For as Mrs. Pitcher says...
...switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
...Department switchboard misrouted a call from Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, gave him a tabulating machine operator. "This is Walter Winchell," said Winchell. "I'm calling about my appointment with [the] General." The figure-adder blanched, turned to his boss, breathed: "My God! It's Walter Winchell," fainted...
...plan would be, it would not be drastic. The draft would be only an extension of the girls' compulsory education. Drafted girls between the ages of 18 and 24 would be placed on the same footing as men, given the same subsistence, same wages. They would learn switchboard operation, nurses' aid, hospital work, buying and preparation of food, automobile driving, map reading, sewing, budgeting, as well as such mechanical skills as they wanted to learn. Most girls would put in their year at home, would leave home only if they wanted some kind of training which they could...
...Blues were noticeable around Mutual. MBS, theoretically a non-profit-making organization which lacks any real central executive, and functions in fact as a glorified switchboard (stations pay wire charges themselves), is in position to meet the rigorous new network limitations imposed by FCC. If, as the decrees in effect ordain, all stations are made mutual, and any station may buy any station's programs, MBS will be on a par with the other chains...