Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KTLA's General Manager Klaus Landsberg was amazed when the mail brought 20,000 Marco cards before the first program. After the show he began to get telegrams and calls from other TV stations asking how to set up the game. Commented Los Angeles Mirror TV Columnist Hal Humphrey gloomily and probably accurately: ". . . Intuition and past experience with the sheeplike tendencies of TV program directors lead me to believe that we haven't seen the end of it, only the beginning...
Sportswriter Rice really started to make a national name himself when he went to work for the old New York Mail. He moved on to the Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
Some of the conditions the subcommittee found worthy of criticism with regard to Clark arose in a case involving an Orlando, Fla. bond dealer named Roy E. Crummer. In 1944 Crummer was indicted for mail fraud in connection with two municipal bond issues. Crummer's trial lawyer brought into the case Attorney Francis P. Whitehair, a crony of Harry Truman's crony Donald Dawson. In turn...
...almost wrecked Boeing. In Washington in 1934, a congressional committee began poking into Government airmail contracts, investigating charges that carriers were making exorbitant profits, that airline officers had run investments of a few thousands into millions. Boeing hotly denied the charges, said that it had started flying the air mail as the only transport company on its route, soon had two competitors. Nonetheless, the Roosevelt Administration abruptly canceled all airmail contracts; four months later Congress passed the Air Mail Act of 1934, forbidding any financial link between an airmail transport line and a manufacturer. In the meantime, the Army...
...very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume in Braille beneath the bedclothes late at night...