New Year telephone calls set record worldwide
New York officials report 172 New Year telephone greetings to foreign lands this year. Transocean calls during Christmas totaled 565, up from 509 last year, with most links to Great Britain, Paris, and Rome. Americans held longer conversations, including a 40 minute talk, and ship to shore calls spanned the Atlantic. In St James Grace Cooke, a switchboard operator, saved lives during a $250000 fire. Hollywood Marlene Dietrich became the first person interviewed by a transpacific call from Japan, as Tokyo Asahi editors opened the service with a three minute chat from Dietrich on the Caprice Espagnol set.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Transocean
United States
Great Britain
London
Paris
Rome
Atlantic
New York Harbor
St. James, Minn
Grace Cooke
St. James Telephone Company
Cooke
St. James
Hollywood
Calif
Marlene Dietrich
Japan
Tokyo Asahi
Miss Dietrich
Pacific
Joseph von Sternberg
Women at Bell System Powering Long Distance Calls
Edwin F Hill highlights women's vital role in Bell Telephone Service. About 150,000 Bell System women perform various tasks, with two words number please guiding most local and long distance calls. The piece argues this workforce underpins America’s nationwide communication network.
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Bell Telephone
Bell
America
Bell Telephone Quarterly
Bell System
Easter Buffet Ham Idea and Menu for Entertaining
A guide to serving a baked ham as the centerpiece for Easter entertaining. It covers timing at 300 degrees, trimming the rind, scoring, and decorative options with maraschino cherries, pineapple, and citrus. Includes a complete buffet menu with hors d oeuvres, sides, desserts, and serving plan.
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Inez
Willson
Manhattan Sausages and Vacuum Packed Coffee Breakfast
A recipe focused on breakfast items including Manhattan Sausages with a hot three tablespoon chill sauce and fried celery and green pepper. It promotes starting with baked apples and scrambled eggs, plus coffee made from vacuum packed brands to ensure freshness. It emphasizes serving fresh coffee and practical steps for frying sausages.
Proper Study Light For Childs Eye Safety
Parents often neglect study conditions at home and many children suffer vision problems as a result. The piece argues for better lighting, criticizing shaded lamps and shadows and promoting the LES Better Light Lamp as scientifically balanced, glare free, side placed to avoid shadows, with 100 watt bulb providing easy vision and eye comfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illuminating Engineering Society
Majesty Your Dog Promoted By Canine Catering Firm
A city paper notes an elaborate appeal titled The CANINE CATERING COMPANY inviting owners to service for their dogs. It describes balanced dog meals, a dog food market reaching millions of pets, and the formation of a National Dog Food Manufacturers Association with leaders from major firms and offices in New York.
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Canine Catering Company
His Majesty
Fifth Avenue
New York
H. C. Clayburg
California Animal Products Co
Carl J. Rich
Rich Products Corporation
Stewart Rose
Simpson Products Company
Sidney Davidson
Foster Canning Company
Lawrence L Becker
The
Atlas Canning Co
F. J. MecDermott
Frank O'Connell
E. Schlesser
Schlesser Brothers, Inc
Walter Mowll
Old Trusty Dog Food Company
Telephone Warning Saves Plane Crash
A radio weather broadcast warning notified Ray Brown in Lockheed NC 539M and NC 689M that his landing gear was gone and a wheel failed. He returned to Akron, but the shock strut held as he sideslipped in, avoiding a likely disaster with emergency crews waiting.
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Ray W. Brown
Brown
Washington Evening Star
Akron
Ohio
Columbus
Federal Department of Commerce Airways
Cleveland
Ray Brown
Portage Lakes
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Edwin F. Hill
Getter
Jean Prentice
U. S
General Mills, Inc
Minneapolis, Minn
Wingers & Son
GoLp
Goto Marna
Gftcon
Betty Crocker
Committee On Foods
American Medicalation
Greensboro, MD
Narvey Fleetwood J. P. Fowler
G. C. Cohee George’s Sanitary Market Great A & P Tea CO
American Stores Company
Goldsboro, MD
M. E. Jarman
J. W. Sylvester
J. R. Meekins American Stores CO
Great A & P Tea CO
J. Calvin Butler
W. W. Griffin
Hillsboro, MD
Milford Kline
Adventures of
Ess & Kay
CG. E. D
Braunschweiger
Tate
Norge
J. H. Nichols & CO
Foop
Alamo
Karavan
Legrande
Royal Anne
California
Fulguart
Puddine
P. & G. Soap
J. P. Fowler
Denton
G. C. Cohee
Denton Harvey Fleetwood
T. L. Trice, Jr
Preston
A. K. Wrightson
Preston Arnie’s Cash Grocery
Preston Milford Kline
Hillsboro
Legrande Food Store
Bie
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