Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love You!" When the war was over, Hero Cheshire was unsettled about his role in the world. He wrote an article about how he felt, and got a packet of mail from others like himself. Then he called the letter writers together and proposed that they start a cooperative community in which everyone should do what he wanted. It was a dismal failure...
...three-story central building, designed by Manhattan's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will have 60-ft.-wide work spaces, movable acoustical partitions, and horizontal and vertical conveyer belts for interoffice mail. There will be escalators, patios, glass walls, a cafeteria cantilevered over a reflecting pool (ice-skating rink in winter), a 400-seat theater, bowling alleys, an employees' store, tennis courts and a babbling brook. Executives will have a penthouse-topped wing, connected with the main building by a three-story, glass-enclosed bridge...
Intelligence Report. In Elliston, Ohio, charged with tampering with mails, Postmaster Reuben R. Stick admitted opening and reading High-School Teacher Emil Slovak's mail for 16 weeks, explained that he was just curious to see how Slovak was getting along...
...thought, he leased Colorado's Royal Gorge Bridge, a tourist attraction complete with an amusement ride for children, bought a string of outdoor movie theaters, and a resort hotel in La Jolla, Calif. With Robert R. Young in 1951, he bought control of Seattle's American Mail Line, because government subsidies made it look good. Says he: "I'm always a little bit bullish...
Among the spokes in Murchison's golden wheel today are 23 wholly-owned companies, including three chemical companies, four taxi and bus companies in Texas, and Chicago's Martha Washington candy company. He controls, in addition to American Mail Line, Delhi and Holt, Ohio's Diebold office-equipment company (60%), Chicago's Consumers construction-materials company (85%), a water company in Indianapolis and six Texas banks (including 100% control of Athens First National). Through Delhi, he has a big interest in Taylor Oil & Gas, and with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests...