Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only nod to the times by placing its song, dance and story routines in & around a television studio. Though the commercials are missing and Technicolor is floridly present, the film so well reflects the quality of current TV entertainment that moviegoers may feel their fingers itching for a dial...
Paul has given considerable thought to echoes. A good echo effect can be produced in a radio studio with a twist of a dial. But Paul finds that inadequate. "I got a better echo by putting Mary and a mike in a bathroom. That's how we recorded the Rheingold Beer commercials." For a still bigger echo, he uses two tape recorders, running them a split second apart...
...broadcast of today's game will be carried by WHDH (650 on the radle dial), starting at 1:45 p.m. Curt Gowdy will give the play-by-play description...
GOODS & SERVICES New Ideas Homing Tubes. An automatic system of pneumatic delivery tubes, developed by I.T. & T., went into operation in the Bridgeport Brass Co. The robot system routes carriers throughout the plant through a network of tubes, works on the same principle as a dial telephone. The operator sets a dial on the carrier, and electric contacts along the way send it to any one of nine plant stations...
...switches click in the quiet room, cities and industrial centers of both sides turn to electronically simulated rubble. Stockpiles are exhausted. Air bases grow empty of airplanes and bomb dumps empty of bombs. At last the needle of one dial creeps down to zero. This means that one of the contenders-blasted, paralyzed, probably radioactive-has lost all its air power. The game is over...