Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evolved into final form. "The President is so busy," Bentinck-Smith says, "I just do what I can, or he thinks I can, to try to help him." This means doing research for special reports, answering the less routine of the President's mail, and showing up at receptions when the President can't make...
...stores, surrounded by picket lines just as the Christmas rush began, had factories and wholesalers ship directly to retail customers. They began using parcel post, also gave shoppers photographs of merchandise too bulky to send through the mail, and a promise of delivery as quickly as possible. An appeal by the A.F.L. to wives of union members to cancel their charge accounts fell flat...
Since World War II, Chairman Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. i mail-order house, has gone in for freehanded expansion, spent around $300 million to increase its retail outlets from 610 to 694 and another $26 million to open 24 stores in Latin America. On the other hand, crusty old Sewell L. Avery, 80, chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co., the No. 2 mail-order house, has been expecting a bad depression, has closed down an estimated 31 stores and shortened leases on others...
Knowing that the ICC always likes to grant less than asked for, the railroads habitually ask for more than they need. Six months ago, the railroads asked for a 45% increase for carrying first-class mail. But when Postmaster Arthur Summerfield start ed giving more business to planes and buses, the railroads backed down fast, were glad to take a 10% hike. Railroadmen feel that if they could set their own rates and shave them quickly to meet competition, the ICC could concentrate on preventing regional discrimination, stopping cutthroat competition and guarding against shenanigans in railroad management...
Last year, when the seven House masters decided to slice out "entries" in the original of the plush Mt. Auburn street apartments, there were cries of "stigma, stigma." But now, the revolution seems complete. National Scholars open their mail where probationary students once trod; football players use the elevator that hauled the scions of the Gold Coast; average students joke about the resplendence that was, and the stigma that is gone...