Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mail last week, Jack O'Leary got this piece of medical advice: "Tie your ears together with a piece of string, then hold a pencil in your mouth." As nearly as he can figure, it was the 44,200th suggested cure that he has received since he began hiccuping four years and two months ago. It was no more effective than any of the rest...
...have tentative plans to buy houses -more, in both cases, than in 1952. Businessmen got the same sort of sounding. Dun & Bradstreet polled 1,277 key manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, found that 61% of them expect last-quarter sales to top the same period in 1951. One hopeful bellwether: mail-order and chain-store sales in July were 8% ahead of last year...
Died. Clement George McCullagh, 47, publisher (since 1936) of the Toronto morning Globe & Mail and (since 1948) the evening Telegram, two of Canada's largest (combined circ. 453,974) newspapers; of a heart attack; in Toronto. McCullagh quit as assistant financial editor of the old Toronto Globe in 1928, quipped that "next time I come in I'll be buying the newspaper." He joined a Bay Street brokerage firm, later formed his own company and became a millionaire by the time he was 30. In 1936 he returned with the money ($1,850,000, backed by Gold Mine...
...million, turned in the biggest percentage gain (93.3%). TV's share of the U.S. advertising pot nearly doubled, from 3.5% to 6%. The share of newspapers (34.7%), radio (10.9%) and magazines (8.9%) shrank slightly, though dollar volume rose. The dollar leaders: newspapers, $2.2 billion, up 8.8%; direct mail, $923.7 million, up 15%; radio, $712.3 million, up 6.7%; magazines, $573.7 million...
Bright Spots. The brightest spots were among the airlines. United, cashing in on big gains from passengers (up 40%) and mail (up 30%) reported a net of $3,100,000 for the quarter, up 87% to a new record...