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...mailbag was eagerly emptied by partners and officers of the principal underwriting houses in New York and Chicago last week. Each firm was expecting a letter from Frank J. Gavin, president of the Great Northern Railway. Most of Railroader Gavin's letters are notably brief, but this one was to be a little longer than usual. It was an invitation for competitive bids on $100 million 3½% refunding bonds of the Great Northern-the largest issue of topflight railroad bonds to come to market since 1900. The sale must be completed...
...idea one morning at 4 o'clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...
...Divorcees. Woman's Jury is a three-way parlay of courtroom drama, confession, and the endless domestic problems of the soap operas. The problems come out of the mailbag. One problem is chosen for each program and presented to the jury, which makes its decision after hearing the arguments of attorneys (one male, one female) for both sides of the question. The juries (a fresh one for each show) are chosen from Boston's women's clubs. No two-time divorcees or multi-widowed women are allowed...
...India, Major General Howard Davidson, commander of the Tenth Air Force, pinned "The Mailbag Cluster" on a message-center clerk. His feat: making "100 missions to & from the post office...
...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...