FIGURES OF SPEECH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

FIGURES OF SPEECH.

COSTLY TELEPHONE CHATS

Big business managers in New York have been establishing new expensive re- 1 cords on the Transatlantic telephone." There have been ct*tly publicity "stunts,"such as teaching dance steps to soma people in London, but the Mew York business man who talked for ;m hour ancl thirty-seven minutes takes the palm.' His name has not been disclosed, but' his conversation cost him about £290. ' :

Mr. Walter C. Durant, the controller -.of '■ General Motors, holds second place in tins."'.'endurance trials with a conversation- from Berlin which lasted an hour and a-quarter. In the matter of hours on the air .Mr, . "j. purant is easily ..- first. During a-recent». •trip abroad ho sometimes puts in as many as a dozen calls a day on- the .Atlantic , telephone. One week his telephone, bill ; amounted to £5000! . . - Mr. John McEntee Bowman, president; of the Bowman Biltmore Hotels Corpora;- ... lion, when ho was last in London, got. in-, touch by telephone with a . conference ■ ■■.•- going on in _.thb Biltmore Hotel, in xSX'W York. He talked with six (HfferenV exe-. cutive officers individually. . , ; ;