Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parcel post service developed. Boyd's again found itself in unprofitable competition with the Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart Mr. Williams turned Boyd's old enemy-the U. S. Post Office-into its indispensable servant. The company has on file some 10,000,000 U. S. names. Trade lists start with Abattoirs, end with Zinc. There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd's listed 620,000 persons rated at $50,000 or more. Last week there were 495,000 such persons...
...Majesty at last gave the straight-armed Fascist salute, originally the Roman salute of the Caesars. After returning it the multitude of women began to file past the urn, dropping in gold rings all morning, all afternoon, well into the night. By this time Rome, with a population of approximately 1,000,000, had given some 250,000 gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings...
...Rank & file of the performances grew more & more routine and the Metropolitan's name lost much of its luster. The future of opera in Manhattan was unpredictable when the last curtain was rung down on the 1934-35 season...
...Lawyer Baldwin's file the committee's investigators unearthed a copy of a letter to the wife of Powerman Phillips, relating that as a boat gift Mr. Baldwin had sent her husband a bottle of Creme de Menthe with this jingle...
...Title I of the Act states that "after Dec. 1, 1935, unless a holding company is registered . . . it shall be unlawful for such holding company, directly or indirectly" to transact normal business. Maximum fine for each violation: $200,000. SEChairman James McCauley Landis has made registration easy, insisting that filing will not impair the powermen's right to challenge the Act's constitutionality at a later date. Last week in a final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would be null & void should the courts eventually find that...