Word: buzzer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pocket Buzzer. Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania is testing a pocket buzzer to call people out of range of standard telephone bells to the phone. Operated by radio signal from the telephone company's office, the pocket buzzer emits a high-pitched hum whenever the subscriber is wanted, signaling him to head for the nearest phone. Service is being used by doctors, newspapermen, plumbers, salesmen and TV servicemen, in the Bethlehem-Allentown area. Cost: $10 a month for up to 80 calls, 5? extra for each additional call...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...
...Dave Kelley tallied two goals to give his team a 3 to 1 lead with several minutes remaining in the game. Yardling center Mike Graney brought the freshmen to within one goal of the Bruins, but the strong Brown defense held the Crimson skaters at bay until the final Buzzer...
...including four Rolls-Royces-but he still charged his friends 5? for rides to school. From Groton and Yale he crossed the Atlantic to study history and literature at Oxford (a point which should help him in Whitehall). From his first job as a $16-a-week Wall Street buzzer boy, he rose to head the highly profitable J. H. Whitney & Co. (investments). Even as he was getting into the social news with his stable of racers and steeplechasers, his polo playing, his first marriage to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, and his second to Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, he was combining...
...overall height by 3 in. to 57.2 in. in some models. Buick's engines will go up another 45 h.p. to 300 h.p. on all models except the low-priced Special series, which gets a 25-h.p. boost to 255 h.p. One new gadget: a "safety minder" buzzer, which can be set to remind drivers when they hit the speed limit...