Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three pay-as-you-see systems use the basic technique of broadcasting "scrambled" signals that form a picture only when unscrambled by a special device attached to the receiving set. Telemeter Corp., 54% owned by Paramount Pictures, uses a coin box hitched to the TV set, which unscrambles the picture when the proper amount of money is inserted. Zenith Radio Corp.'s Phonevision, now awaiting an FCC decision, originally used a special unscrambling signal transmitted to the set via a telephone-line attachment, and depended on the phone company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate...
Since the coolies would accept only Nepali coin in payment, twelve men had to go along just to carry the payroll...
...never had it so good." said one side of the Democratic campaign coin of 1952. Said the other: "Don't let them take it away." As 1953 started, many prophets, even those uninfluenced by political slogans, thought that "it" was bound to vanish. The overshadowing factor in all the predictions was the Korean war. Would the new Administration make good its pledge to end it, or get an armistice? If so, what would be the effect of the reduced arms spending on business...
...could crowd around some 70 specially prepared TV sets in Palm Springs, Calif., a far-flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription TV. system that is partly owned by Paramount. Like its rivals, Ski-atron and Phonevision (TIME. Jan. 8, 1951), Telemeter is designed to eliminate the commercial message from TV and to move the box office right into the viewer's living room. For a fee inserted into...
Traveling Secretary. For traveling businessmen, Travel Talk, Inc. put coin-operated Dictaphone machines into trial operation in Cleveland and in London, Ont. For 50? the user can dictate into the machine for 15 minutes, gets a Dictabelt record and a stamped, airmail envelope to send it to the home office for transcribing. Travel Talk expects to have 2,000 machines installed within two years...