Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Constant Companion. One reason for the fabulous success of local stations is the post-TV development of a new average radio listener. He treats his radio like a constant companion who is pleasant to have around but can be comfortably ignored. The dial twister listens intermittently while getting up, before going to sleep, while shaving, eating, working around the house or driving (26% of the in 111 million radios in the U.S. are in automobiles). Aiming at such listeners with scattershot advertising (many spot announcements instead of big shows) and the inexpensive formula of recorded music, news and sports, local...
...Dial a Stamp. To dispense odd lots of postage stamps, post offices are installing automatic stamp-selling machines in their windows in 66 of the busiest cities. The machine, made by Electric Vendors of Minneapolis, has six dials, one for each of the most popular stamp denominations. When a customer asks for a few stamps (up to ten), the clerk dials the proper number and out pop the stamps. Price: $1,000 per machine...
...general renovation will include the replacement of the central switchboard of Fay House, by a dial system like Harvard's for inter-office and out-going calls. The switchboard will be used only for incoming calls...
...Bureau of Standards has worked out for the Atomic Energy Commission a handy system for following radioactive clouds as they drift cross-country. Throughout a large region around AEC's Nevada testing ground are radiation detectors perched on poles. Each detector has a telephone number, so AEC can dial it and ask it how much radiation it feels in its vicinity. The detector answers with an audible tone whose pitch (frequency) indicates the intensity of radiation. By calling many detectors, AEC can tell just where its clouds are drifting...
...Benjamin Fairless. Said he: "Automation has become a menacing word-a kind of modern bogeyman with which to frighten our people." Fairless went on to show why he thought the fears "just plain silly." Was not the telephone industry the prime example of automation, with its increased use of dial phones? Yet between 1940 and 1950, said Fairless, the number of telephone operators in the U.S. increased by 159,000, or 79%. In the same ten-year period, while vast strides were made with electronic business machines, the number of accountants jumped by 71%. As for the auto industry, Reuther...