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Word: dialing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designated hours on specified days, Bomp would call a San Francisco number to chat with a sidekick named Jimmy Fratianno; at other times he would dial a Las Vegas booth for messages from Tony Spilotro, a Chicago gang heavyweight. He also received calls at the booth. A Mafia member for 40 years, Bomp was a consequential figure in the Mob hierarchy. He was also an informant for the FBI, the highest-placed Mafioso in that role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...meantime, research at the Center goes on, and the universe continues to expand. If you want to know what is happening in the sky this week, you can call the Center's Dial-a-Satellite phone...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking It to The Limit | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

...went the nation's first dial-a-President radio program, for which more than 9 million calls were attempted as Americans whirled their fingers numb in the hope of asking Jimmy Carter what he was going to do-or for a chance to tell him what he ought to be doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: America Gets On the Party Line | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Detroit man files for a loan with the Dial Financial Corp.: $600 to pay his overdue fuel bill. The Georgia Power Co.'s Atlanta switchboard hums with a record 70,000-plus calls a month, mostly from hard-pressed customers complaining about the jump in utility charges. In St. Louis, Cleo Starks, 40, marches down to the Laclede Gas Co., her $300 fuel bill wadded in her fist, and punches the daylights out of Inez Paoletti at the customer service desk. "I don't know what happened," Starks told police. "My mind just snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSUMERS: Pity the Suppliers | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...nation's gas companies, helped by cutbacks in industrial use, managed for the most part to avoid serious disruption of residential service. Utilities reported gratifying householder response to appeals from President Carter to dial down thermostats. In Chicago's North Shore residential area, consumption fell by as much as 15%. Nonetheless, hard-pressed utilities shopped far afield for additional supplies. A representative of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., one of the nation's largest pipeline companies, prowled corporate corridors in Houston cornering utility men and offering to swap heating oil for Texas natural gas. A consortium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Assessing the Cold's Damage | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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