Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find...
...spots were more than offset. Atlanta registered sales 4% above 1957 (which merchants said was "incredible." because 1957 was 8% better than 1956). The biggest surprise of all was in New York. With the nine major newspapers shut down by a strike (see PRESS), department stores lost some mail- and phone-order business, and total sales were below anticipation, but they set new records. Said one top store executive: "It was wonderful...
Though the cost-of-living index for November rose slightly with the price rises of new cars, Government economists expect lower pork, fruit and vegetable prices to hold the index down until spring. Prices went down at Montgomery Ward; the giant mail-order house cut 16,042 items by an average of 10%. pegged some items lower than they have been at any time since...
...When Nyrop took over in 1954, operating costs per ton-mile were 31.2?, among the highest in the industry. By 1958 the figure dipped to 25.1?, more than 12% below the industry's average. Nyrop, who pared the CAA budget by $15 million and whittled CAB's mail payments by $13 million a year, cut costs at Northwest by poking into every detail. He turned up behind ticket counters, spent off-hours flying Northwest's 20,000-mile system to find tiny economies...
...meticulously kept memorandums and letters give a levelheaded record of the advice he gave his advisers. He could write a letter to a brother monarch such as the one he drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing he could do directly for his people...