Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peace vigil," managed to draw only a few dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of prayer for peace, he was able to announce that the switchboard at Manhattan's station WNEW "lit up like a Christmas tree...
...made a deal with the city back in the thirties to trade the land where Lincoln Square fire station now stands for the property on which Littauer was built. Lincoln Square is now the center of all fire operations in Cambridge; its station contains the city's main fire switchboard. Littauer is, of course, the headquarters of the School of Public Administration. Cooperation paid off then. And two shrewd traders were bound to learn the lesson...
...found out in a hurry: "Wham! Our switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree...
...right. The White House switchboard was swamped with calls from angry ex-marines, their families and friends. At the Hotel Statler, the Marine Corps League happened to be holding a convention. The outraged feelings of the Marine veterans reached a steamy climax in a 20-minute speech delivered by Sheriff William Harris, of Chatham County, Ga., who referred to "that creature in the White House," and blamed as the source of the Marines' troubles the man who had tried to cut Marine strength to the bone -Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, that "incompetent damn fool...
...poles had rotted and fallen; much of its wire had corroded and snapped. Dr. Bryan hired a young lineman to put in new poles and wire, spotting the bad breaks in the system himself as he drove around the countryside on his calls. He bought a secondhand switchboard for $100, installed it in a room beside his office, and got his secretary to operate it. Since then he has installed up-to-date dial phones for his 330 subscribers in mountainous, sparsely settled Grainger County, can tie them in with the Bell system for long-distance calls...