Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARCH OF LITERATURE - Ford Madox Ford-Dial...
...willing to suggest abolition of traffic lights, which most safety experts agree are necessary in heavy traffic, Dr. Fabing called attention to several patented, non-confusing systems. His recommendation: a clock-dial light with a rotating hand swinging from a green section at the top to a yellow caution light at the quarter-hour position, to a red section at the bottom, to another yellow caution light at the three-quarter-hour position- the hand always showing by its position how much green or red time remains...
...written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country is a simple chronicle that contrasts particularly with the excitable, brooding record of Louis Adamic...
...young men sat down to telephones one morning last week in the office of County Treasurer Horace G. Lindheimer in Chicago, began to dial. Their assignment was to buzz every one of 4,000 delinquent personal property taxpayers, who owed Cook County $1,000 or more. Results at day's end: 171 responses, 129 promises, seven complaints that the taxes were too high, one part payment which amounted to less than the day's telephone bill ($25). Meantime, in another part of Treasurer Lindheimer's office, another crew of assistants was busy -without any lack of success...
With a pudgy finger President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina last week twirled the dial of his telephone, talked briefly to the governors of his four northwest provinces-La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman. Thus symbolized was the fact that these sparsely settled but rich grazing lands for the first time enjoyed telephone connections with the world at large. Also symbolized was far-flung International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s successful foreign investment...