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...policy concerning the U. S., went over to the Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...
...pink zipper suit turned up in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store, talking his own private language, grabbing merchandise indiscriminately. Because the customers were amused, the management let him alone until he started painting the floor with shoe polish. At the police station, he pulled plugs out of the signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling Hospital, nurses agreed he was the dirtiest child they...
...York: Any confetti with that switchboard girl...
...special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship." ...Fire control rooms exist on some of the very large liners but on the Morro Castle and like boats, fire apparatus is installed on the bridge.... It is possible to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to the inaccessible cargo and like spaces. It is not permitted by law, at the present time, to pipe any fire-extinguishing gas into passenger quarters.... The only method of fighting the fire...
...complete the inter-office exchange of the University buildings in Cambridge a new switchboard holding an additional 200 lines was installed last week to serve the offices of the Athletic Association and the Biological Laboratories which have hitherto been under separate numbers. Until the dial system is installed throughout the city in December the University number will remain as University 7600. The Business School has not been connected with the central office and will retain its old number, University...