Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keep cool when you pick up that phone to dial Wellesley or Radcliffe, man. You can't tell what's going on at the other end of the line without television...
...WALKER (372 pp.)-Man Sandoz-Dial...
Russians, inveterate wire tappers at home, have taken their listening-in habits to Western Europe. "See that dial phone?" said a harassed official at the U.S. Legation in Vienna last week. "It's a direct outside line, but I can't get a single number on it the first time I dial. The second time I invariably get right through. The first dialing serves to alert a monitor. He then sees to it that I get good service while he listens...
...bearded Allan D. Dowling, 43, who makes his money in real estate and spends some of it publishing his own avant-garde poems, had sent the Review a mash note. He thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
...wouldn't. He was one of hundreds of top executives who had helped take over the boards when 340,000 National Federation of Telephone Workers walked out a month ago. But along with Bell's dial system and the thousands of nonstriking supervisors (who probably would benefit), his ability to keep the lines open was the reason N.F.T.W. was coming back to work this week-beaten, broke and dispirited...