Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he left Montgomery Ward to join its more or less moribund mail order rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co., as vice president 44 years ago, General Robert Elkington Wood brought with him a long catalogue of eccentricities...
...later, he was wide awake. At the other end of the line was National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow with the news that Hanoi was at last prepared to end the month-long dispute over a site for talks on the Viet Nam war. By way of the diplomatic "mail drop" that the U.S. and North Viet Nam have been using in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, Hanoi notified Washington that it would send representatives to Paris, probably by this Friday, to get the long-delayed negotiations under...
...Capitol has preoccupied many Washington officials this week. Congressman William C. Kramer (R-Fla.), the author of the anti-riot provision of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, is pushing a bill to bar the marchers from erecting their shacks anywhere near the complex of federal buildings surrounding the Mail...
...Cooper, Ostrin, De Varco & Ackerman in 1957, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. In 1962, he decided to try his own hand at the business. He bought controlling interest in Perfect Photo Inc., later merged it with three other firms: United Whelan Corp., a drugstore chain; Hudson National Inc., a mail-order firm; and Equality Plastics Inc., a consumer-products-distribution company. The profit-making result was Perfect Film & Chemical Corp., a New York company engaged in film processing and mail-order sales of drugs and vitamins. Ackerman remains Perfect Film's president and board chairman; for the time being...
...loans are scarce, selling part of its $9.6 billion portfolio when funds are plentiful. Fannie Mae deals only with such approved lenders as banks, mortgage and insurance companies, and savings and loan associations. By buying their mortgage loans, it replenishes their investment capital. The transactions are generally handled by mail through Fannie Mae's five field offices...