Word: dialed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange. No more time wasted searching out symbols on a paper tape. Not for some New York stock brokers, anyway. If they are dealing in stocks listed on New York's American Stock Exchange and subscribe to the exchange's computerized Am-Quote service, they can dial for information and get it automatically by voice...
...citizen who has just been mugged on Staten Island in New York City is likely to get a second unpleasant surprise. If he still has a dime and dials the officially listed police number, ST (for Saint George) 7-1200, he will get a business firm in Manhattan. The cops' correct number happens to be SA (for Saint George) 7-1200, but someone goofed when it came to listing it in the police roster. Manhattanites are told to call SPring 7-3100, which is hard enough to remember and even harder to dial in the dark. When help finally...
...much as two hours. In Los Angeles County's 75 incorporated cities, 27 of them policed by the county sheriff and 48 by local forces, the right number to call is often a mystery to the householder with a prowler hacking at his back door. Best advice: dial the operator and pray that she is not already swamped with other calls...
That said, the Sierra Club band strode off behind him into sun-dappled woods, up a winding creek bed. Many had walked no farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
...citizen of Munich who found himself stranded outside Bavaria had until recently an easy cure for his Heimweh. All he had to do was pick up a telephone, dial 0811, and listen. Over the wire came a soft, feminine whisper: "München . . . München . . . München." The tape recording made strong men weep and buoyed up thousands of dispirited travelers, but finally the Munich telephone company had to discontinue the service. Homesick Münchners were tying up all the lines...