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Word: dialing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...VIXENS (347 pp.)-Frank Yerby-Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scarlet Splash | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Build a Monopoly. Some 18 million dial phones still worked, but that service would last only until there were mechanical breakdowns. Maintenance workers were among the strikers; so were clerical, accounting and plant workers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s vast Bell Systems. Workers at the subsidiary Western Electric joined the walkout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Horse in a Hat | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Moskva there was a dial telephone and hot water in every room (the hot water began on the same day as the conference), English-speaking employees on every floor. A special book of meal tickets entitled each visitor to excellent, inexpensive food (waiters in the Moskva's dining room were surprised to see how British newsmen, rationed at home, stuffed themselves). Everything was so good for the visiting newsmen that Moscow's seven U.S. regulars put in a bid for special restaurant privileges too-and got them in six hours, a bureaucratic record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The New Freedom | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...grandson of U.S. ambassadors (to Japan and Italy), Link MacVeagh gave no early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Specialist's Diagnosis | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...YOUTH (615 pp.) - Fyodor Dostoevsky- Introduction by Alfred Kazin-Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinners In Chaos | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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