nov 8, 1917 - American women are recruted to sereve as bilingual phone operators

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General Perishing sent out word that bilingual phone operators were needed in Europe. To run the American milliary telephones in Europe. 1,750 women applied and 450 passed a language test and were moving on to training. Most of the candidates were french teachers or professional operatives. They accsepeted the most highly educated

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