Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...
Consternation ran high. When Dockweiler combed the studios before election, palm outstretched for contributions, all he got was the air. Fitts had been there first. On election night the "Fitts Victory Ball" collapsed early in a welkin of gloom. Industry patriarchs burned their lamps late exchanging phone calls on ways & means of getting on pleasanter terms with Dockweiler. In his next Hollywood Reporter editorial, W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson, the industry's mouthpiece, trumpeted: "The King is dead. Long live the King." With lachrymose solemnity he recalled that Fitts had been a great friend, protecting the industry from phonies...
Voice: "Ninety per cent of our business is done on the phone with people I have never seen, unless they take a trip through Canada...
Included in the phone book are the numbers which do not connect through the University switchboard. Only graduate students who have asked that their number be printed will be included...
...tough assignment for underwriters. No sooner had they taken it than it got tougher: the "Big Five" insurance companies (Metropolitan, Prudential, New York Life, Equitable, Mutual Life), who had wanted a 3% yield, boycotted the issue. Hence, instead of selling one-third or half the issue with five phone calls, underwriters had to sell to hundreds of small insurance companies, thousands of banks and private investors...