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TELEPHONE BOOKS IN NEAA T YORK
Official evidence suggests that the users of public telephones in Britain are gentler. lighter fingered, less passsionate and less hectic than their brothers and sisters in the United States, states “News Chronicle” in a special article. Such violence is employed in a phone box on the corner of Times Square. New York—the most used box in the United States —that the telephone directory books there have to be changed every 96 hours. An official of the London telephone service was shocked at the news. “Why. in the average public call-box here.” he said, “the books last six months.
“The most-used phone boxes in London are at Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus: and even here it is only occasionally that directories have to be renewed at intervals of a week or fortnight.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1937, Page 12
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