Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to broadcast the first regular television programs in the U. S. To the dismay of engineers, television's sound effects were picked up by many another unlikely gadget. Television interference also came in on numerous Manhattan radio receivers, including Journalist Dorothy Thompson's, over the whole dial...
With all his genius for selling literary junk, Max Salop has an almost wistful ambition to become a "legitimate" publisher. In 1933 he bought the highbrow Dial Press from Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh and took a beating for art's sake. He lost money-probably the only time in his career. But he hung on proudly till...
...Paris last week telephone users were urged to "Save your time, your money, your memory and your nerves." How? By renting a clever little gadget for automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
Time required for the Mémophone to dial a number is 71/2 seconds, as against an average of 15 seconds for hand dialing. To circumvent snoopers, names can be entered on the table in code letters or figures. Another advantage is that, by locating the police and fire calls at the top and bottom of the indicator's range, these numbers can be called in total darkness...
...declining market is a sign of woe, fortelling that unemployment will again exceed its "normal" quota of 10,000,000. When the market is down the New Deal begins to look for new brands of unemployment reducers and market restorers. Last week, it was obviously twirling the dial in search of the right wavelength on which to broadcast a new offensive against renewed depression...