Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes print two on your cover I nominate as Man of the Year Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. We all love President Roosevelt but what other news story held, not only a nation, but the whole world, tense for a week? For five days the needle on the dial of our radio flickered frantically from station to station, all other programs and news items forgotten, searching for news from London...
...Boston university professors, as well as chamber music and the complete public program of this year's Harvard Tercentenary. Stocky, blond Engineer Lemmon, who was wireless operator on the George Washington when it took Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control, is now research chief for International Business Machines Corp. This week the Federal Communications Commission permitted WIXAL to double its power from ten kilowatts to 20, enough to make it clearly audible in Burma...
...dial telephone was patented...
...that the broadcasting companies have clamped down on one party or another during the last few weeks is not borne out by the facts. The tuning dial has run the gamut of colors from the purple and gold of economic royalty to the bright red of communism. Censorship is not the issue, for time on the air has been sold to all comers...
...these instruments carbon monoxide is oxidized to carbon dioxide by means of a contact catalyst. The heat of this reaction is transformed by a thermocouple into electric current which operates the needles of a dial...