Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will H. Hays, cinema tsar and onetime Postmaster General, dropped in at the White House. The President invited Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur to come over for a consultation. Subject: Aircraft purchases for the Army and Navy. Mr. Hays, when a member of the Cabinet, had worked over the Air Mail Service in its infancy...
...year has been unusually favorable to mail-order houses. Sales of Montgomery Ward & Co. to Nov. 30 were $142,570,298-over 19% above sales for the same eleven months of 1923. Sears, Roebuck & Co. showed distinct though less sensational improvement; its sales for eleven months ending Nov. 30 were only $1,260,078 over the same period in 1923-less than 1%. Yet its sales for November this year exceeded those of last year by $2,071,441, or over...
Christmas is primarily a boon for independent retailers and department stores, although chain-stores and mail-order firms benefit by it somewhat. The latter organizations are less subject to seasonal influences than department stores, particularly, who must "clean up" during the Christmas and spring seasons to carry large stocks over the long summer months...
...will be an opportunity of visiting the Europe which, to them, is bounded by the boulevards of Paris, Monte Carlo and its gambling hells, Deauville and San Remo; and if they can see a one-piece bathing suit, they will have achieved the summit of European travel. . . . Every mail brings me seductive circulars...
Seductive circulars that come by every mail. (Page 19, column...