Summary: <h1>Highlights</h1><br> <ul> <li>US Telephone in WWI - Dr. Sheldon Hochheiser, AT&T | @02:25</li> <br> <li>The tide begins to turn - Mike Shuster | @10:10</li> <br> <li>The “Sweetheart of the doughboys” - Edward Lengel | @14:25</li> <br> <li>The Women’s Land Army - Elaine Weiss | @22:55</li> <br> <li>Anzac Day - Group Captain Peter Davis & Commander Peter Kempster | @30:30</li> <br> <li>100 Cities / 100 Memorials: Granite, OK - Phil Neighbors & Perry Hutchison | @37:40</li> <br> <li>Speaking WW1: Kiwi & Aussie | @44:25</li> <br> <li>WW1 War Tech: Geophone | @45:35</li> <br> <li>Dispatch Newsletter Headlines | @47:20</li> <br> <li>WWI Centennial in Social Media - Katherine Akey | @50:05<a id="more-9448890"></a> </li> <br> </ul><h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #69 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week:</span></p><br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Sheldon Hochheiser tells us about an iconic American company and its role in the war -- AT&T.</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Schuster, from the great war project blog updates us on German morale as Operation Georgette comes to a close.</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Edward Lengel with the story of Elsie Janis, the “sweetheart of the doughboys”</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elaine Weiss introduces us to the Farmerettes, the women’s land army</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Captain Peter Davis and Commander Peter Kempster on the Australian and New Zealander commemorations for ANZAC day</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Phil Neighbors and Perry Hutchison with the 100 Cities / 100 Memorial project from Granite, Oklahoma.</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katherine Akey with the commemoration of world war one in social media</span></li> <br> </ul><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And lots more... on WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC]</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preface</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we are going to explore the US telephone system during the war -- and unlike most nations where the phone systems are typically government owned --- The US Telephone system has always been privately owned - well, not always - for 1 year during WWI - the US government took over the nation’s telephone system… but perhaps most amazing of all - a year later, after the war, the US government privatized it again!</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With that as a setup, let’s jump into our centennial time machine and look at the America’s telephone story 100 years ago - in the war that changed the world!</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[SOUND EFFECT]</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[TRANSITION]</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">World War One THEN</span></h1><br> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">100 Year Ago This Week </span></h2><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is the summer of 1918 and the House Committee on Interstate Commerce is holding hear</span></p>
