Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chain-store and mail-order sales in August topped last year for the twelfth successive month. In the first eight months of 1955, they were 8.6% ahead...
...picture caption read: PRIESTS IN SHORTS. The photograph showed two Episcopal clergymen in Northfield, Minn. last week for the national convention of Episcopal Young Churchmen-standing about coolly in Bermuda shorts. The picture pulled a flurry of mail from: 1) Episcopalians who objected to men of the cloth baring their knees; 2) more Roman Catholics who resented the application of the title "priests" to Protestants...
...still growing: fortnight ago it launched its Oregon edition, i.e., local program listings and news inside a national news-and-feature jacket; editions are being readied for Oklahoma, Georgia, Louisiana. For its Oct. 1 issue, TV Guide will guarantee 39 separate editions, mail and newsstand circulation of 3,000,000 weekly...
...years of setting Fair Trade prices on its products, Westinghouse last week gave up. It abandoned Fair Trade pricing on its electric housewares and bed coverings. Said Westinghouse: "Actually, we believe in Fair Trade, but under present circumstances, do not believe it is workable." The company explained: 1) mail-order shipments of price-cut appliances from non-Fair Trade places into Fair Trade states "hopelessly" broke down enforcement, and 2) the "varying price situation" from one state to another made national promotions almost impossible. It was the second big pull-out of the year; earlier, toy-train maker Lionel Corp...
...Prospective clients call up, name banks or reputable friends as references, then ask Hill's for a weekly credit-anything from 10 to thousands of pounds. (A few wealthy clients have no credit limits.) Once the credit is granted, the player places his bet by phone, telegram or mail. One squad of clerks makes sure the wager was received or postmarked before race time, then other clerks, sitting in the huge horse room, check each bet against the enormous blackboard that carries race results from all over England. The betting week closes Friday night; by Monday morning every client...