Dial Telephone History and Modernization Explored
A visitor tours the North State Telephone building in High Point detailing the dial system from its early crank days to automatic switching. The article retells Bell’s wireless and wired innovations, noting a 1935 shift to dial operation and the system’s social impact.
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New York
London
Charlotte
Robbins Tilden
North State Telephone Company
Commerce Street
Ray Street
High Point
J. F. Hayden
Hottem
Central
North Carolina
Pacific Bases Plan Promotes Long Range Defense
The report to Congress on retention of island bases in the Pacific urges a permanent defensive chain from Alaska to Australia. It identifies four potential foes Russia Japan a rising China and a billion Indians and recommends U S control of strategic bases formerly held by Japan and Western allies with a Pacific Territory proposal including the Marianas Marshalls and Palau and Guam as capital.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
House
Naval Affairs Subcommittee
Pacific
Congress
Far
Europe
Alaska
Australia
Japan
China
Russia
United States
United Nations
Subcommittee
India
Kipling
Germany
Hitler
Capitol Hill
Secur
Philippines
Guam
Wake
Douglas MacArthur
Uncle Sam
Malaya
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
London
Amsterdam
Paris
Joseph R. Farrington
Marianas
Marshalls
Oe Pom
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Atlantic
Britain
Swa P
Large scale surrenders begin on Okinawa
The article notes a sharp rise in Japanese prisoners on Okinawa as U S surrender leaflets take effect. More than 10,000 prisoners were captured, signaling morale drop and prompting further propaganda to encourage surrender. It also mentions early U S leaflets dropped behind lines and the Tom Thumb locomotive of 1829.
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Okinawa
U. S
America
United States
Peter Cooper
Cochran’s influence shapes future public leaders
The Missouri congressman John J. Cochran led a congressional reorganization panel and mentored three rising stars who rose to top government roles. James F. Byrnes, Fred M. Vinson, and Lindsay C. Warren benefited from his blunt guidance. He contemplates a school to teach public life, omitting his 1940 primary defeat by Harry S. Truman.
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England
U. S
John J. Cochran
St. Louis
Capitol Hill
Missouri
Congressional Reorganization Committee
Joe” Robinson
Arkansas
Jack
James F. Byrnes
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Lindsay C. Warren
Harry S. Truman
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Mr. Tilden
Tilden
Alexander Graham Bell
Philadelphia
Don Pedro
Brazil
Ation
MacArthur
Corregidor
Nature
Doan
Ns . Jeweler
Las South Main
U.S.S
Taylor
New York Harbor
Charles
Brits Ain Selef
Chesterfield
Uschia
Main ST
N. C
Carrass
Coats Chesterfields
Charles Easy
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