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Roused at last to action, some inhabitants of Rockcastle County recently filed a complaint with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, demanding adequate service. That was the first time the commissioners had been aware that there was a Mt. Vernon Telephone Co. It had blithely ignored a 1934 State statute requiring the filing of a yearly operating statement...
...Another complaint I have to make. We should have two TIMES a week in our home as Dad leaves for his office before I get up and takes TIME with him. I could use it every day in school-only there the teachers make a grab for it. Some day I'll have a subscription...
...charges. Said the columnists: "Although the President is waiting for the Germans to shoot first . . . there has been shooting already. . . . The interest of the Germans is to avoid ... an incident. It is perfectly possible that the submarine was in fact sunk, and that the Germans have suppressed all public complaint. . . . The Navy ... is fully ready to act. ... It is far from improbable that preventive occupation of the Azores and the Cape Verdes, or the garrisoning of Iceland will be ordered in the near future...
...last week. It was NBC's Pot o' Gold, which in its heyday a year ago kept 15,000,000 listeners at home each Tuesday night, hoping that a telephone call would net them $1,000. The Pot survived an investigation by the Department of Justice, bitter complaint by cinemoguls whom it robbed of Tuesday-night audiences. In the course of its 89-week existence, the Pot distributed a whopping $89,000 in easy cash...
Captain James Roosevelt, observer extraordinary, showed up in Cairo last week, looking a little peaked and touched with the popular complaint known as Gyppie (for Egyptian) Tummy-a light form of dysentery. Part of his peakedness came from the fact that he had just been on a remarkable desert march and had his baptism of fire...