Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for more aid to under-developed countries which can be of little immediate military value. Such aid would be drastically cut if the agitation of Chambers of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers is heeded. Eisenhower's weak stand can hardly protect this item from congressmen whose mail boxes are stuffed to overflowing...
Woolly summer fogs and bitter March nor'easters sometimes hold up even the U.S. mail boats that ply among the 172 islands of the San Juan group at the north end of Puget Sound, but nature seldom stays Dr. Malcolm Heath, 43, from his appointed rounds. By airplane, ferry, small boat and (in far-from-rare emergencies) Coast Guard cutter or seaplane, Dr. Heath brings a frontier brand of modern medicine to the islands' 7,000 residents and summer visitors. He is the only doctor in the islands and one of the most remarkable G.P.s anywhere...
...MAIL-ORDER SHOPS will be tried in some National Tea Co. supermarkets. Aldens Inc. of Chicago will sell lower-price appliances and clothing, also set up catalogue stands for ordering more expensive merchandise...
...pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough Johnny Matson. who recalled her dollar-a-dance days, wooed her by mail from the Yukon. When Johnny died in 1947 she philosophized: "There's nothing left for me to do but mush on and keep smiling," married again a year later...
...story line the simple, glorious trajectory of the flight itself. The essential facts of Lindbergh's early life-he was the son of a well-known Minnesota Congressman, barnstormed as a boy pilot, made top of his class as an Army flying cadet, was flying the mail between St. Louis and Chicago when he got the big idea-are presented in artful flashbacks...