Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advertising is carried out at minimal cost on a person-to-person level. In the belief that publishing is in "esence a cooperative adventure between author and reader, with the publisher as middle man," Bledsoe publicizes his books through a direct mail campaign...
Pasternak insisted that he had given Anthony Brown of the London Daily Mail a batch of poems, all in longhand, to be delivered to a friend, Jacqueline de Proyart, curator of the Tolstoy Museum in Paris. Now he learned that Brown had taken it upon himself to publish in the Daily Mail a poem bearing the title Nobel Prize. The poem, said Pasternak, was written "in a black, pessimistic mood that has now passed." The very fact that Brown had plucked it out from all the others "shows what motivated the young man," the old man went on indignantly. Whether...
Bell's Napoleon. The man who put the stripling Bell system out ahead-and assured it of staying there-was Theodore N. Vail, a onetime Western Union telegrapher and Government mail superintendent who became general manager of the new Bell Telephone Co. when it was founded in 1878, later became president of A. T. & T. Vail won the biggest battle in the patent wars by proving that his old employer, Western Union, was infringing on Bell's invention, and forcing Western Union out of the telephone business. As the Bell interests developed through several companies, they bought Western...
Murphy announced that his mail favored the stand he had taken last Saturday by a ratio of 11 to 1. Though he declined to predict the Legislature's reaction to the sales tax, he quoted an unnamed Democratic Legislator as saying, "I think it is dead...
Another machine, now going into the U.S. postal system, shuffles a mountain of mail so that each stamp faces in the right direction, then postmarks and cancels 500 stamps a minute, double what a man can do. Next November the Post Office will get a 75-ft. long P-B mail sorter by which twelve operators each can sort 720 letters a minute-triple the manual rate. Each letter passes on a conveyor belt before the eyes of a postal worker, who pushes keys to direct it to one of 300 cubbyholes. Now P-B's scientists are tinkering...