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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since 1882. Wailed London's Daily Mail: "The worst and most humiliating failure by an English overseas team for many a decade." ¶In Boston, Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger, 25-year-old University of Oregon graduate, took advantage of a fast pace, closed with a finishing kick to win the two-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

There is only one official U.S. function that a Government monopoly entrusts to a private monopoly. The company is Connecticut's Pitney-Bowes, Inc. P-B makes, sells, rents and services the postage metering machines* that print and postmark more than $1 billion worth of stamps on business mail every year. This not only saves millions in postal handling costs for the U.S., but it brings to P-B exceptionally high profits of 9? per revenue dollar. P-B announced this week that 1958 earnings rose 7% to $4.4 million on gross income of $51.3 million. P-B will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Stamp of Success | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

TEAMSTERS DRIVE to organize 70,000 of Sears, Roebuck's 205,000 employees in mail order, warehouse and service station operations has met with little success. Admits one Teamsters official: "It's going to be an awfully long campaign, as long as five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Gambit. In Clearwater, Fla., Wallis Cady, who has been playing chess-by-mail for 18 months with Ray Pearson of Detroit, wrote to remind Pearson that he had not made a move in seven months, soon got a note from Detroit, saying "I thought it was your move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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