Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morse G. (for Grant) Dial, 56, was boosted from executive vice president to president of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Fred H. Haggerson, 68, who was both president and chairman, will continue as board chairman. Reared in Fargo, N. Dak., Dial graduated from Cornell, worked for the Brownville Board Co. before joining Union Carbide in 1929 as a sales supervisor. Later, as manager of the Vinylite divisions, he helped make Union Carbide the world's largest producer of plastics...
...SARACEN BLADE (406 pp.)-Frank Yerby-Dial...
...unwary dial-twirler in New York is likely to tune in on some strange and wonderful giveaway shows. From an "overstocked surplus warehouse," the listener has been offered "at laughably low prices, sweaters in two styles-turtle or V-neck. Just state what kind of neck you have." Or how about a ten-day course on "How to Become a 97-lb. Weakling"? Or a Handy Burglar Kit, containing jimmies, canvas gloves, crepe-soled shoes and "aliases you can use over and over again -for example, Benjamin Franklin and Mary, Queen of Scots...
...into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...
...pressure gauge (manometer) that it claims is far more sensitive than any competitor. Invented by Swedish-born Frederick C. Melchior, it has four disk-shaped pressure chambers like those of ordinary aneroid barometers. But the movements of the disks in response to changes of pressure do not swing a dial needle. They are read, instead, by an electrical device that detects very small movements. Used as an altimeter, the instrument flashes a red light when raised three inches off a table...