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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital's only morning paper, the Post makes its impact on official Washington at both the right place and the right time-in the pause before the daily scurry through the bureaucratic and political brambles. "Of all the American newspapers," Britain's Lord Northcliffe (London Daily Mail) once said, "I would prefer to own the Washington Post because it reaches the breakfast tables of the members of Congress...
Wherever Americans go, they can hardly avoid other Americans even if they want to. But few do. Around the world, they have one universal rendezvous for free advice, mail from the folks and, above all, the reassuring sight of fellow Americans: the nearest American Express office. It is the tourist's "home away from home," in the cozy words of American Express President Ralph Thomas Reed. A handsome, hazel-eyed man who looks like any other tripper when he goes abroad, Reed is the businessman who first applied to foreign travel all the ingenuity and resources of U.S. industry...
...Great Invention. When American Express was formed 106 years ago, out of a merger between three eastern companies, its founders had no thought of handling anything but freight and money. Co-Founder Henry Wells in 1841 had pioneered express service from Manhattan to Buffalo, later began New York-Buffalo mail service by printing orange stamps and carrying letters for 6? v. .the 25? Government postal rate. As a result, the U.S. Post Office set up a nationwide 3? postage in 1848. American Express helped build its freight business by introducing C.O.D. shipments, but the most important American Express invention...
Jack Barry, who was fired as M.C. of NBC's $100,000 giveaway, The Big Surprise. He was indignant about the way he was fired, "by a formal note sent in the mail, a cold, old piece of paper...
Officialdumb. In Wellington, New Zealand, an irate housewife complained that she phoned the Department of Agriculture for help when her home was invaded by a buzzing swarm of wasps, was told that she would receive a circular on wasp control in the next mail...