Word: dials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio stations have found themselves out-blaring each other at 550, the first station on your dial, since the beginning of the school year...
...second hour of Today is pretty much a repeat of the first, and a third hour, off the air in the East, is telecast to the later-rising Far West. When Today is over, Garroway hustles upstairs from his street-level TV studio to broadcast his 15-minute Dial Dave Garroway radio show...
Last week the Austrian post office, administrator of the telephone system, proudly announced that the service would be expanded. Beginning Sept. 1, a lazy parent may dial A-0-60 and tune his child in on a complete five-minute bedtime fairy tale. Different story every night...
...many bubbles still remain of the champagne that once was life in Vienna, but one surviving reminder is the telephone system. With a languorous turn of a dial finger, the Viennese can evoke by telephone the latest weather reports, football pool results, stock and commodity exchange quotations, train or bus schedules, a complete daily dinner menu with recipes, or a perfect Atone for his violin...
...pamphlet briskly urges the candidate, in picking a theme for his initial speech, to choose one "in which you believe." The worst bugaboo of all is competition: "No law compels people to listen to you. You must interest them. If you don't, a flick of the dial will bring them drama, news, comedians, music or"-the saddest fate of all-"another speaker...