Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Readers are often moved by a kindly instinct to share TIME and the news it contains with other people. The mail recently brought two examples. The first letter came from Dr. J. Maurice Swain of Cleveland. He enclosed a check with the request that it pay for a subscription to "someone who you believe would most benefit...
...recent Tuesday morning a phone rang in one of TIME'S Manhattan offices. It was a call from the Circulation Department asking for a job to be done in a hurry. The job was a letter, which had to be printed and in the mail within three days. Could it be done? The answer was yes. Two days later, 160,000 finished letters were on their way and two handy little machines were folding and inserting more letters into envelopes for mailing at the rate of 4,000 an hour...
...government-owned radio network stopped carrying Father Marcos on its Seville station, but the priest's fan mail doubled. In Madrid, outside the cardinal's jurisdiction, Father Marcos carried on with the approval of his superior, the Oblate Provincial, who last week sent a report on the matter to the Vatican...
...week to two months in spent, in the most common form of training program, in each of the divisions of the bank instructing the executive candidate in the finest details of the running the establishment. A month in the mail, bookkeeping, statement, and credit departments shows the "flow" of business form receipt to payment...
...Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, according to tradition (and Herodotus), can stay the couriers of the U.S. mail from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Actually, there are often unaccountable delays, as Substitute Letter Carrier Willie Brown, 30, an unemployed Chicago machine operator, spectacularly proved on Christmas Eve. Willie took several drinks to brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after...