Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to take care of as many Harvard people as possible," he explained. "I just kept going back and forth between the counter and the mail all day until the supply was gone...
Minister & Mail Carrier. The revolt against the Hedermans was led by Mississippi-born Dumas Milner, 37, one of the leading businessmen in Jackson and biggest Chevrolet dealer in the South. Milner, who is estimated to be worth more than $2,500,000 himself, began to think about starting the new paper when the Hedermans made their first open move to buy the News. Milner got twelve other businessmen to put up the first $300,000, and then "it was one of those things that snowballed, with people just calling in and asking to buy stock without even being asked." Investors...
...Nash, sometimes like to "make a little dough" on a sideline. Nash's sideline: guest expert on television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
...program requires 120 workers to tabulate reports from 20,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses on each of 1,830,000 children in the trials (440,000 who got the vaccine, plus the 1,390,000 who did not). The mail supplying the 144 million necessary items of information is mountainous...
...find out what the public wants, G.M.'s customer research department questions 2,000,000 people a year by mail on their likes and dislikes. G.M.'s traveling Motorama provides another fine source of information, with interviewers stationed by every experimental car. The results are all carefully tabulated, passed along to styling and engineering and to President Curtice, who studies them carefully. The surveys are important, e.g., pushbutton doors were made standard equipment when the research department found that 70% of the people interviewed preferred them to handle doors. But surveys would be worthless without a sure styling...