Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five nights a week at 7:45 E.S.T., approximately 1% of New York City's radio listeners dial station WHN for 15 minutes of liverish news analysis by a balding frenetic, German-born commentator named Johannes Steel. Fortnight ago he had a proud announcement: he would be the American Labor Party's candidate for Congressman from Manhattan's lower East Side...
...nation's telephones are dial and were not affected on local calls. A great majority of the 123 cities with 100,000 population or over are from 80% to 100% dial. In Chicago (50% dial), all operators manning switchboards stayed at work. Camden, NJ. was the only city with 100% manual phones where all operators struck...
...wants advice from the public, and intends to get it. The Met is going to let the great un-ermined radio audience select six of next season's performances. For the first time in history, the Diamond Horseshoe will see the opera matinees that the mass audience of dial twisters wants to hear...
...SHORT NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKY-With an Introduction by Thomas Mann -Dial Press...
...action begins on the transport when Captain MacDonald steps to the deck, looks at the luminous dial of his wrist watch and says...