Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions or cry "Bingo!" The exchange was so badly jammed that the New York Telephone Co. pleaded with the station to stop airing the phone numbers, but within the hour 35,000 more calls flooded in. Next day the station asked winners to send in their diagrams by mail. The prizes ranged from a $500 TV set to a tankful of fish...
...building be rigorously carried throughout, allowed only a one-sixteenth-inch leeway even in the interior offices, hallways and shower rooms. Draftsmen on the job rapidly discovered that Mies's doctrine of "less is more" applies to work as well as design, spent weeks redesigning door handles, mail chutes and even fire alarms to put them in harmony with the building. To heighten the impact of Mies's austere geometry, the building and plaza were finished off in rich materials. Siding the plaza are thick strips of green marble; inside, the elevator lobbies have travertine walls and terrazzo...
Airlift. All told during the seven-day stretch most Pennsylvania trains were either canceled or late, and so much mail (4,000,000 pieces) piled up that the post office organized an emergency airlift of four airlines to move it south and west. The great trouble, said Pennsy Vice President J. Benton Jones, was "under-maintenance." Most of the stalled engines were between 15 and 23 years old, many of them the same engines that broke down under similar conditions during the winter of 1942-43. Yet the Pennsy cannot afford to buy new engines...
...quantity of crude oil. In midafternoon Getty received a distinguished visitor: John D. Rockefeller III, 51, scion of an older oil dynasty, who came to ask his financial support for a $75 million art center in Manhattan. Getty expressed interest, made no commitment. Swiftly he worked through his business mail, answering the letters by scribbling a notation in the margins, then popping them into envelopes to mail back. Shortly after dark he left the hotel and mailed his letters, trusting no one else to perform this important job. Then he set out on his daily two-mile walk through Paris...
...What will be the world's eventual verdict of her?" asks Author Gordon Young, a Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail. By the time the reader is halfway through Author Young's dramatic, well-told tale, the verdict has already imposed itself. Mathilde Carr was one of those half-human pathological types, living between reason and madness, against whom, as often as not, a world of law has no real weapons...