Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick as the turn of a dial is the process by which Radio makes its own artists. Oldtime success stories seem slow and labored compared with the meteoric rise of moonfaced Morton Downey, who has earned $4,500 a week with his ballading ever since young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System used him to lure Camel's cigaret advertising from National Broadcasting Co. Kate Smith's story is another one based on tobacco. Her 240 Ib. and an easy, tricky way of singing had scarcely identified her with musicomedy when La Palina cigars snatched...
...SILVER EAGLE?W. R. Burnett?Dial...
...right-hand side of the piano, in a space left empty by shortening the strings, is an amplifier. To it is attached a loudspeaker. These may also be used for phonograph or radio reception (with pick-up or aerial). A dial by the keyboard regulates the volume of sound in eleven degrees of loudness. If the loudspeaker is turned off, the "Claviphone" tinkles like a spinet. Turned on full force, it will fill a large hall. Once you have set the dial for a certain volume, you may vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal...
...newspapers, then through a new medium created for the purpose" (TIME, May 4). Fortnight later the Cincinnati newspapers began to skeletonize their radio programs to such terms as "Dialog" for Amos 'n Andy; "Commentator" for Lowell Thomas; "Dance Orchestra" for Paul Whiteman. Result: within a week appeared Radio Dial, an eight-page weekly selling for 5? and presenting news and programs of broadcasting. Three weeks ago Radio Dial declared a press...
Trouble with Editor Nicholls's scheme was that numbers with "i" or "o" in them lie out of the dial alphabet. And only a few people could translate their numbers into anything even as memorable as "Plesido." For example, best that Owen D. Young could get out of his Butterfield 8-2765 would be AV U A ROK? George Fisher Baker Jr.'s Atwater 9-2360 makes nothing better than...