Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete the inter-office exchange of the University buildings in Cambridge a new switchboard holding an additional 200 lines was installed last week to serve the offices of the Athletic Association and the Biological Laboratories which have hitherto been under separate numbers. Until the dial system is installed throughout the city in December the University number will remain as University 7600. The Business School has not been connected with the central office and will retain its old number, University...
...burning boilers drove steam turbines to power the motors which turned her screws. She was built at Newport News, Va. in 1930 for $5,500.000. Against fire she was protected by one of the most elaborate systems ever installed afloat. In a special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night, with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship. An automatic alarm system was designed to indicate instantly the position of fire in any part of the vessel...
...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...
...could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart how unimportant his strip really was, Editor Patterson threw Daddy, Annie and all, out of one day's edition. First thing next morning the Tribune's telephone switchboard began flashing like an electric sign. By nightfall 600 readers had called to know where Annie was. Convinced, Editor Patterson reinstated her, and Daddy with her. Annie now appears in 300 daily and Sunday newspapers, ranks close behind the Gumps and Dick Tracy as top circulation pullers for the Tribune...
This system will be still further enlarged next year when the dial system is installed and a new and larger switchboard is constructed. The branch boards in the Athletic Association and the Biological laboratory will be entirely abolished and these telephones will be controlled from the central office in Lehman hall. The number for the whole system will be Krikland...