Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear up the blur, the owner of a pay-as-you-see television set would only have to call "Phone Vision" on his telephone, tell the operator what show he wanted to see; the price of admission would be added to his phone or electric light bill. A small, inexpensive (about $5) telephone attachment* would transmit the missing key frequencies to his set. Another show could not be tuned in without another paid admission. The system, McDonald predicts, will be operating within a year-barring, of course, legal objections by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not yet considered...
Mechanically, U.N. worked. It was using up document paper at the rate of 2,000 tons a year, and 22,000 phone calls were going through its switchboards every day. Last week, U.N. technicians demonstrated how fast their radio teletype is: a query to the U.N. office in Geneva brought a flash right back: "Having a heat wave. . . . Lake Geneva looks most romantic under a summer moon...
...explained that I was an American correspondent. She became my champion. She went to a phone and began calling people. Finally: "Go out and to the far side of the library. There you can get a visitor's pass...
...Toscanini took a garrulous lady friend to see The Telephone, which concerns a woman who spends so much time gabbling on the phone that she wouldn't listen to a proposal. Toscanini, in a waggish mood, got Menotti to substitute the friend's phone number for the phony number usually used in the opera...
Once Smoky tried to telephone Chiang Kaishek; on another occasion he tried to talk to Manuel Avila Camacho, then President of Mexico. Last week Smoky got the urge again, picked up the phone in his Oelwein, Iowa hotel, and said: "Get me the Kremlin in Moscow." Four hours later, on a line which crackled and buzzed, he was put through to Moscow...