Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase of some $240,565,000 a year in postal rates was approved 13 to 7 by the House Post Office & Civil Service Committee. Among the changes: first-class letters sent out of town would cost 4?, airmail letters 7?, and second-class mail (newspapers, magazines, etc.) would be gradually increased to about 33% above the present rate by April...
...Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., 53, moved up from the presidency to the long-vacant (since the death of his father in 1943) job of board chairman of Spiegel, Inc., the nation's No. 3 mail-order and retail house. Spiegel, still the chief executive officer, took over the family business in 1932, when sales were only $7,000,000 and the company was losing money, got it back on a profitable basis the following year and by last year had boosted sales to $134 million. Replacing him as president: Robert S. Engelman, 41, who, like Spiegel, graduated from Dartmouth...
...Through a special arrangement with Harvard, 29 Eastern colleges now actively try to persuade their students to go into teaching: they hold conferences, mail out pamphlets, put up posters. Students who join up go for a fifth year to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, not only take professional courses but do some actual teaching at nearby schools. At the end of the year, they get either a master of education degree or a master of arts in teaching. Two years ago, 40 students went to Harvard from the participating colleges. This year's registration...
...time for morning prayers, as the crack Pakistan Mail raced westward across the Sind desert one day last week. In the wooden cars at the front of the train, crowded beyond normal capacity, shivering Moslem passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
There was little time for formal prayer, however, in the cab of the Mail's locomotive as it rounded a bend 75 miles from Karachi at 60 m.p.h. Sprawled athwart the rails dead ahead were two tank cars, filled with gasoline, from a freight which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into...