Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer will the Harvard Crimson Network broadcast its three and a half hours of recorded music over 830 kilocycles on your radio dial. A newly-born WHCN will present its program a fraction of an inch to the left at 800 kilocycles...
...variation does not come into effect until Monday. The latter change is necessitated by the growing interference with WHDH, operating at 850. The change reverts the kilocycle number back to August, 1943, when due to faulty equipment, the station had to take over its present position on the radio dial. The change to WHCN was pure inspiration and will not cause any further changes...
General Patton undressed and was about to get into bed when he noticed that his watch had stopped. He turned on his radio, spun the dial to BBC and an instant later heard a voice, un-British with emotion, say: "We regret to announce that the President of the United States has died." A precise man, the General waited exactly two minutes to get the time. Then he set his watch at 12:15, put on a bathrobe and slippers, and walked back to the house...
Radio generally was pleased by the curfew. Many a stay-out-later with no place to go may now stay home and twiddle the dial...
...records his latitude and longitude on the instrument. From the data about direction and speed automatically received during the flight, the computer calculates the plane's latitude and longitude, without allowing for wind drift. To find out exactly where he is, a navigator reads the indicator's dial and makes corrections for drift by means of a driftmeter...