Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more versatile than the old-style ranges. Almost unhampered by static, they give the approaching plane a straight-in heading from any direction. Rather than flying on a narrow, crowded beam, a pilot can tune his Omnirange receiver to the desired station, then read his course on a dial...
Lost Hour. Maurice Evans' considerable triumph is the more impressive because he had to sandwich TV rehearsals between his performances in the Broadway hit, Dial 'M' for Murder. On the day before he went on the air, Evans (as well as Actors Barry Jones, Neva Patterson and Francis Bethencourt, all of whom are in Broadway plays) had to act in a matinee and evening performance, lost an hour's sleep with the change to daylight saving time, and then began the final Hamlet rehearsals...
...even the most advanced Macfadden theories seemed trite compared to the revolutionary Macfadden inventions. Most sensible of these was the "physical culture watch"-a turnip-size timepiece whose dial showed what exercises should be performed and what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy...
...Conelrad" (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation). It will go into effect the instant hostile aircraft are detected approaching the U.S. All TV and FM transmitters will go off the air. All AM transmitters will either be silenced or will switch their frequencies to 640 and 1240 on the dial of any standard receiver. This technical jugglery is necessary in order to prevent enemy pilots from getting a "fix" on a normal radio beam and riding down its path to drop bombs on a target city...
...Dial "M" for Murder...