Word: dials
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...able to park his car in front of a meter and keep his pennies; he was able to punch that windbag who lives upstairs right in the mush without fear of retribution; he was able to speak his unclean mind, and look smugly at his luminous watch dial. The little man was able to let off steam, to show haughty contempt for the forces of stratified authority. Tomorrow, the little man will be able to go back to his job in the credit department, to his filing cabinets, to his tedious task of screwing nuts on bolts and feel good...
...Dial-twisting youngsters last week found two more programs to add to their list of favorites...
...shows the driver the rate at which he is using gas, thus warns him when he is driving uneconomically (e.g., stopping & starting too fast) or his engine is wasting gas. The meter has a rubber tube to the intake manifold; the manifold pressure controls a needle on the dashboard dial, which shows the rate of gas consumption...
Floodtide (Dial; $3) is Frank Yerby's mixture as before, a crude, shrewd combination of sex, violence, sadism, costuming and cliche. Yerby, a 33-year-old Negro writer who hit a $250,000 jackpot with his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well...
...wire, spotting the bad breaks in the system himself as he drove around the countryside on his calls. He bought a secondhand switchboard for $100, installed it in a room beside his office, and got his secretary to operate it. Since then he has installed up-to-date dial phones for his 330 subscribers in mountainous, sparsely settled Grainger County, can tie them in with the Bell system for long-distance calls...