Word: franticness
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Cause for Alarm! Loretta Young as a frantic housewife whose life suddenly depends on getting a letter out of the mails (TIME...
Cause for Alarm! Loretta Young as a frantic housewife whose life suddenly depends on getting a letter out of the mails (TIME...
Cause for Alarm! Loretta Young as a frantic housewife whose life suddenly depends on getting a letter out of the mails (TIME...
There had always been a few chiselers in the army of 1,500 clerks, handlers, and carriers milling around each night in Boston's South Postal Annex. With all the frantic bustle of sorting and dispatching the daily mail, no one would ever miss the man who slipped out for a few beers or a movie. Before long the word got around Boston's pool halls and political clubs that the long, grimy building down by South Station offered splendid opportunities for anyone with the urge to cheat the Government out of a paycheck...
...sales, which had recently soared as much as 40% over last year's, dropped back to 1950 levels. Retailers blamed the drop on the freezing weather and the price freeze, which had stopped most of the beat-the-price-rise buying. If sales stay down, some of the frantic inventory buying, which has pushed up wholesale prices, is bound to diminish. Retailers are not yet worried about being caught with their stocks up. But soon they might...