Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your prayerful support. Won't you write us and tell us you are listening?") Where it is not, solicitation may be direct ("You are invited to send your free-will gifts and offerings for the support of this worldwide faith ministry to . . ."). Others use the hard-sell technique ("Mail those contributions now, because we have to pay up our back bill to wonderful KGER. I wish more of you would pledge a dime a day so we won't have to talk money. Keep those tithes coming in"). Whatever the method, the collections are often sensationally profitable...
...Daily Mail gasped at her "diplomacy, mischief, bubbling sense of fun." The News Chronicle's Percy Cudlipp, finding prose inadequate, turned and with a side glance at Playwright-Husband Arthur Miller penned a parody of Hiawatha titled Highbrowarthur's Honeymoon...
...Passed, in the House, by a 217-165 vote, an Administration bill-opposed by the Democratic leadership-to raise postal rates from 3? to 4? for first-class mail, 6? to 7? for domestic airmail, and by 30% to 120% for second-class mail. The bill, designed to wipe out the postal deficit by producing $430 million a year in new revenue, will probably be pigeonholed in the Senate...
...MAIL-ORDER PRICES are going up again this fall. New catalogues for Sears, Roebuck & Co. are hiking prices 1½% overall, while Montgomery Ward & Co. is boosting prices 2% on some appliances and home furnishings...
...down $1,500,000 for shares in tiny Keystone Oil Co. As it turned out, Keystone was more talk than oil. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Government's watchdog over securities markets, filed charges against Chicago Promoter Harry G. Ames, 61, on 14 counts of mail fraud and failure to comply with SEC regulations. The Keystone case,, coming after the collapse of Bellanca stock (TIME, June 25) and indictment of Walter F. Tellier (TIME, May 7), pointed up a growing debate in the U.S. securities industry: Is SEC doing a good job of policing the nation...