Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been busy for two months, transferring the information to new cards, which can be sorted and counted automatically as they are needed. At the present, time the questionnaire is being used to compile lists of men qualified for medical, laboratory, and language work, and for such special jobs as switchboard operators...
...Emma Weickert, a telephone switchboard operator in Miami: "I even stopped taking milk from Senator Graham's dairy and am taking it now from MacArthur...
Inside, the Japanese soldier is as tangled as the wires behind a telephone switchboard. From birth he has been taught the glory of dying for the Emperor. He knows what the manual says: "To die participating in the supreme holy enterprise of mankind (war) must be the greatest glory and the height of exaltation." Knowledge that he may die, that he may never go back to the gardens, the chrysanthemums, the neatness, the singing, the clean raw fish and warmed-up sake that are home, makes him in the field something quite different from what he was in peacetime Japan...
...Manhattan, radio historians could recall nothing like it. In Memphis, listeners swamped WMPS's switchboard with telephoned bravos...
Because a large number of volunteer workers are needed to aid the Cambridge Red Cross this winter, University undergraduates will find many opportunities to assist by interviewing the families of soldiers, acting as reserve switchboard operators, serving as referees in Army and Navy athletics, and doing office work for the U.S.O...