Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German cities from the air are propaganda. Since visitors are prohibited by the Geneva Convention from speaking to war prisoners, all the newsmen could do was stare in silence at the waxwork faces of the young Nazis, who silently stared back at them. Around a big concrete sun dial which they built they have inscribed: "For us the sun never goes down...
Last month Manhattan's small, exclusive Dial Press announced that it would soon publish the original version of one of the century's most blush-provoking literary works. This hitherto unpublished draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the late David Herbert Lawrence's distinguished novel about a titled lady who deserted her aristocratic but impotent husband for the family gamekeeper, will be issued next month in a first printing of 15,000 copies at $2.75 the copy...
...logophiles who tear through the Dial Press's version in search of dirty words will be disappointed. The new Lady Chatterley is the first (and tamest) of three complete versions which Lawrence made before he worked himself into his frenetic study of sex. In all of Dial Press's new version there are only four dirty words which the publishers have printed like this...
...crossbar toll switching system") has greatly speeded up long distance telephoning and relieved wartime overcrowding of toll lines. Telephone officials expect to install the system throughout the nation as soon as equipment is available after the war. Eventually, they believe, it will be possible for a customer to dial an out-of-town call on his home or office phone. Already, in Culver City, Calif., engineers are testing an instrument which not only permits direct dialing of toll calls (within a limited area) but automatically records on a printed ticket the length of the call and the charges...
...will carry some of the U.S. shows that make Canadians flick the dial, tune in on U.S. stations. Among them: Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Philco's Hall of Fame, and a serial, That Brewster...