Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearing & Distance. VOR/DMET and Decca are radically different. VOR/DMET* gives the distance and direction from each of many individual stations. The navigator can tune to the frequency of a VOR/DMET station and see his compass bearing from that station appear in degrees on a dial. Then he sends a signal to the station, which replies by telling him his distance from it in nautical miles. By plotting the bearing and measuring off this distance on his chart, he can pinpoint his airplane's position and set his course accordingly...
Echoing the life and times of the nation, the ring of the telephone resounds through U.S. literature, theater, movies. It evokes laughs (Bells Are Ringing) from the plight of an answering-service operator who falls in love with a client, horror (Dial "M" for Murder) from a homicidal husband's attempt to lure his wife into an assassin's hands with a telephone ring, frustration (Menotti's The Telephone) from the dilemma of a lover whose girl constantly interrupts his proposal to answer the phone-until he rushes to a phone booth to propose...
...opinion of the telephone company. A quarterly report from the New England Tel. & Tel. Co. listed this three-month activity in "customer relations": 330 talks by company officials, 1,271 company films, 501 talks with films, 587 displays, 7,305 customer interviews, 167 lecture demonstrations, 54 exhibits, 67 dial demonstrations. A. T. & T. executives proudly quote former (1951-56) President Cleo Craig: "We must make sure that the people who carry on our business do not think of the company's interest as one thing and the community's as another...
...Undertaker's Dial." To the nation's fast-growing telephone industry, a Kansas City undertaker named Almon B. Strowger made one of the greatest contributions. Strowger was convinced that a competitor was bribing the operator, trying to beat him out of business by snatching death calls intended for him. To eliminate the operator, Strowger invented the first, crude dial system, set up his own company after a Bell official turned down his system. Not till the independents had widely installed the dial did A. T. & T. go along. Many people protested the move. When dial phones were installed...
...company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs 3,500 people, uses ten Hollywood sound stages where it produces more syndicated shows (32) than any of its competitors. Ziv charges $35 to $3,500 a week per show (depending on the size of the viewing city), grossed $42 million last year...