Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back. Worth $51,200 in ten years." The get-rich-quick scheme, starting in the South last fall, spread into New York and New England last week. Each participant buys two bonds (total outlay: $37.50), gives one to his sponsor and pops the receipt for the other in the mail to the person on the top of an eleven-name list. He then knocks the top name off, and adds his to the bottom. Then he lines up two friends, collects a bond apiece from them (thus gets his money back), and makes sure that they each mail a bond...
Dubious Treasury officials last week issued a warning against the plan. But such lucky bond buyers as Used-Car Dealer Cliff Pettit of Knoxville, Tenn., who with his wife and son has already received 252 bonds in the mail, were happily counting up their riches...
...cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly Negroes, waited in the damp street. Cavalry horses were tied four and five to a picket post along the block. Newsboys ran past, shouting: "Assassination!" At the Baltimore & Ohio terminal, all train traffic stopped as detectives searched passengers, trainmen, mail bags. It was 7:22 a.m. The surgeon general of the United States leaned across the bed and placed two silver coins on the President's eyes...
From the number of invitations already accepted, it is obvious that the idea has caught the imagination of the individual businessmen for whom the conference is designed. Every day we are getting mail from others who have heard about the meeting by word of mouth and want to be there...
...conservative Daily Telegraph snorted at the idea that a question of free speech was involved. Atheistic views, it held, are no more entitled to broadcast time than a defense of polygamy, homosexuality, or Communism. The conservative Daily Mail did not agree. "Christianity is not so weak a faith that its adherents should run screaming from those who attack it," proclaimed the Mail on its front page. "Mrs. Knight has perhaps shocked a number of people into thinking for themselves." The liberal Star came out against the BBC; the conservative Standard and News both defended public airing of Mrs. Knight...