Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the usually staid Advocate got into trouble. Although the post office declared its parody of "Dial" was mail-able, Boston still banned it. A nude man, line drawings and obscene Jokes provoked Municipal Court Judge John Duff to say. "Not in years has more indecent literature' been placed on sale in Boston. Even the Holy Bible did not escape their perverted brains...
Harassments. With practiced eye, they measured the new Communist insults and harassments, and decided that the Russians did not intend war. There were incidents aplenty. Nightly there were isolated shootings and Communist kidnapings. An East German policeman slightly wounded an American MP at one border point. Dial telephone service between East and West sectors had been cut off by the Communists. As many as 800 refugees a day fled from East Germany to join West Berlin's 290,000 jobless...
With the new plant, Union Carbide opens the door to an infinite variety of new products. From a new abundance of such coal-hydrogenation chemicals as toluene, xylene, napthalene and phenol, predicted Union Carbide's President Morse Dial, will come an endless stream of new medicines and drugs, long-wearing and fireproof fabrics, new paints and detergents, better weed-killers and insecticides...
President Dial, who came up through the ranks as a star salesman, and took command only three weeks ago (TIME...
...processes that did not even exist in 1939. Among them: the process for making butadiene from alcohol which provided 90% of all U.S. World War II synthetic rubber; synthetic gems which outshine the original; polyethylene plastics whose uses range from radar insulation to flexible bottles. "Research," says Morse Dial, whose company has spent upwards of $100 million on it in five years and will spend $30 million more this year, "is our lifeblood...