Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building, one and a half stories, will provide the branch office with 2300 square feet of added floor space. "Because of the added room, and loading space, mail delivery in the area should be facilitated," a postal official noted...
Social Club. The Washington studio is the showpiece of the terpsichorean empire that Arthur Murray started by teaching dancing in a hurry through mail-order lessons 34 years ago. Since then, he and his wife, Kathryn, have expanded fast, opening up about 150 new studios in the last five years alone. In all, they have taught some 5,000,000 pupils; in the last twelve months Arthur Murray studios in the U.S., Bermuda, Honolulu, Mexico, Cuba and Canada grossed $32 million...
Running Hop. After college, McElroy got a job at P. & G. as mail clerk in the advertising department, learned the ins & outs by reading mail from P. & G.'s house-to-house selling crews, ad agency and distributors. He planned to go back to Harvard Business School, but he traveled so fast in P. & G. that he never did. After a stint selling soap, he was made manager of the company's then small promotion department. At 26, he was sent abroad to help take over a small soap plant in England, there got a good education...
...years Schwab's has been a hangout for movie stars, hangers-on and Coke-stretchers, who sit at the soda fountain sipping their drinks, waiting for miracles, or just thumbing the movie magazines borrowed from the magazine rack. At Schwab's, Columnist Sidney Skolsky receives mail, phone calls and tips. With Skolsky's syndicated help, Schwab's has become the best-known corner drugstore...
Irresistible. In London, arrested for pinching a geranium from a windowbox while delivering mail, Postman Frederick Johnson was fined 10 shillings ($1.40) after telling the judge, "I am very fond of flowers and in a moment of temptation I took...