Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Student Council proposal, tickets would be distributed by mail. This plan would require students to carry a special athletic identification card with their own picture printed...
...department handles other diverse jobs. It runs the University telephone service, and it delivers the Departmental, mail, which is handled through a University Post Office near the gate at Wigglesworth. One of the more unusual tasks that is under Buildings and Grounds is the ringing of the bell in Memorial Church for one minute every hour. And though there are complaints at times about the noise, there are always anxious calls on the rare instances when the bell has failed to ring...
...part-time employee in the University post office, Knaus was arrested January 11, 1951 and accused of stealing $1,500 in University checks. Police said he took the checks out of the mail and then cashed them in local banks with forged signatures...
TRUCKERS have presented the Post Office with a plan they say will save $85 million a year by shifting all mail from railroads to trucks for distances up to 300 miles. They argue that trucks are faster, cheaper and more flexible. Postal authorities seemed unimpressed by the plan since most big post offices are geared to rail service, are not set up to handle heavy truck traffic...
...trouble spot was retail sales. After holding fairly steady during January, sales began to slip. The March totals dropped 2% below February and 5% below March 1953. Mail-order houses announced gloomy figures. Sears, Roebuck sales were down 12.2% from last year and Montgomery Ward was off 22.8% for the month and 19.4% for both February and March. Retailers explained that mailorder catalogue prices were rigid compared to department stores, said people were beginning to shop around for bargains...