Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely furnished three-bedroom house in San Fernando Valley, a Kaiser and a choice of jobs). One program, Mutual's Queen for a Day, bragged that it had given away $1,117,000 in three years. With the pile of prizes mounting at every flick of the dial, networkers were not certain just how much was being offered, but guessed that last week's kitty amounted to about $214,000. And that figure omitted the giveaways on less spectacular, but numerous, local stations...
...seedbed for little magazines, the American soil is fertile but thinly spread. Of the hundreds that have sprouted since 1912, only a handful have put down roots. Some of the best (Hound & Horn, the Dial, etc.) have withered and died. Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground...
Student 'phone-seekers will get the busy signal for some time to come, it was learned last night, as Cambridge dial officials announced that no new instruments can be installed in College rooms for at least another five months...
WCOP, "1150 on your radio dial," arrived in Harvard Square yesterday armed with a station-wagon, two stooges, a mike, and a wire recorder. They had come speaking the answer to this cryptic query: "If the Communists should gain control of France and Italy, do you think the United States should go on with its aid to these countries...
Grid fans not undertaking a trek to New Haven this weekend will nevertheless be able to follow the Eli classic, blow by blow. Boston radio station WHDH (850 on the dial) will broadcast the game Saturday starting at 2 o'clock. The 1:30 o'clock kick-off will come floating Cambridge-way, however, through the facilities of WEAN (Providence-710 kc.), whose broadcast will begin at 1:15 o'clock...