Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olson was called to the phone in the Doctors' Club dining room of Texas Medical Center and got the flash: Beaumont was devastated. All he had known in advance was that the test would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near by, and the phone was busy. One doctor had to hoof it over to the inn to get the surgeons moving...
...general renovation will include the replacement of the central switchboard of Fay House, by a dial system like Harvard's for inter-office and out-going calls. The switchboard will be used only for incoming calls...
There will also be switchboard service open until late at night to handle the rush of calls early in the fall term. Later in the term the information switchboard will be open 24 hours...
Filmed at Princeton, at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Oppenheimer presides as director, the show was a 30-minute digest of a 2½-hour interview. When the show went on the air the CBS switchboard at first received a "few calls of protest." Since then, the mail received at both CBS and Princeton has been heavily in Oppenheimer's favor, and Murrow reports that an additional hour-long film of the interview is being prepared for release to colleges. It will be financed by the Fund for the Republic, a division of the Ford Foundation...
...during 1954 with humility, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the breeders of Weimaraner dogs, added followers of Senator Joseph McCarthy to his list. On the heels of McCarthy's break with the President, Godfrey commented on his show that "Dwight D. Eisenhower is a great President." The CBS switchboard was busy for a while with irate calls from McCarthyites announcing that they were down on both Godfrey and his sponsors...