Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve years I worked for one concern in New York City as assistant to the District Sales Manager, having general office supervision, dictating much of the correspondence, and was trained as a sales representative handling sales by mail and telephone. Four years ago this concern dispensed with District Managers and the New York office closed. Since then I have tried continuously to reestablish myself in the same field, and in others. Briefly, in these efforts I tried all the recognized methods of obtaining employment -to no avail...
Spiegel, Inc., Chicago mail-order house, started a guaranteed annual wage program for 3,500 employes. Men were assured pay for 40 hours a week, women for 36. If they work less, they will make it up in rush periods...
...same period has Southern life changed as rapidly as it is now changing. Political and economic news from the South is confused and contradictory; but Southern literary news snaps and crackles with unexpected items-with new writers discovered and old writers coming back, new magazines popping up and every mail bringing to publishers' desks fresh evidence of the South's literary ferment. In England (where T. S. Eliot's Criterion has called The Southern Review, published at Baton Rouge, La., the best American literary magazine), in France (where William Faulkner is compared...
...mail, like grand opera, is something nobody expects to make a profit. But last week, with all the figures added up for the fiscal year ending last June 30, U. S. air mail revenue was reckoned at $15,301,210; contract pay to airlines at $14,564,256. Result: a $736,954 profit, first in U. S. air mail history...
Just when the Post Office was congratulating itself on having thus got some of its air mail subsidy bait back, news came from London that in June Imperial Airways expects to start flying mail over the Atlantic to Canada for 12? a half-ounce. This would be less than half the rate the U. S. had figured on if and when some U. S. airline decides to start flying the Atlantic. Only way to meet such a British rate would be to pay carriers the difference in outright subsidy, such as Imperial now enjoys...