Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first uranium millionaires (so far, Pick's Delta Mine has made him about $10 million-TIME, Sept. 6). Before long, like many another really rich man, Pick found that the world's less fortunate swarmed toward him at the news of his success; his mail was stacked high with requests for everything from medical aid to a sports car for use in uranium prospecting. He set up a philanthropic organization called the Pick Foundation to handle his grants-many of them to graduate students in the humanities-for he is concerned that the U.S. is so much longer...
...lets himself into his third-floor office and, since he is the first one there, opens the mail himself, carefully putting each letter back in its envelope to be answered by his five-woman staff. Surprisingly little of his mail conies from Georgia-George's constituents seem to be reluctant to take up his time. While the Senate was in recess one summer, a Vienna lumber dealer drove 200 miles to complain to George's colleague, Richard Russell, about trouble with war orders. Russell asked why the man had come all that way, since he lived just...
Brownie Reid has been moving closer and closer to the job he calls the "chief executive officer" of the Trib ever since he went to work summers as a photographer on the paper. From the photo staff he went on at the paper to become a mail clerk, reporter and columnist, writing a weekly column ("The Red Underground"). But he made his biggest mark on the business side. Shipped to Paris two years ago to shore up the Trib's Paris edition, he revamped the budget, got more ads and circulation and put it handsomely in the black...
Once in a while, stymied by a tough question, researchers have to take down a name and address and mail the information later, but most requests get a quick response (one to ten minutes). S.I.R. makes a handsome profit from recorded advertisements that are played over the phone before each answer. Such varied clients as the Hollywood State Bank, the Los Angeles Examiner and a Las Vegas gambling casino advertise through S.I.R. But the biggest buyers of all are liquor companies. More often than not, the fan who calls the service will hear: "Here is your answer, courtesy...
...waste and get the Government out of competition with private services, the commission suggested that the Defense Department appoint a director of transportation, turn over the rest of the Government's transportation operations (except mail and security materials) to the General Services Administration...