Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corresponding increase in the job of John Edward King, general manager of subscription service for TIME Inc. In a ten-story building at 540 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, King and his two assistants, Frank S. Waterman and Charles A. Adams Jr., supervise the handling of about as much mail in a day as the average person receives in a lifetime. The daily average is 32,000 letters. Peak load during the past year: 84,694 pieces of mail, last...
...take care of such a large volume of mail, King and his assistants have set up a system for careful, but speedy, handling of every letter that arrives - from the preliminary sorting to the final disposition. For example, the return envelopes which TIME encloses with reminders that subscriptions are expiring, or in letters to prospective subscribers, come in various colors and sizes. In each case, the size and color mean some thing to the subscription service, making it possible to sort mail even before the letters are opened. A large green envelope, for instance, is an order from a college...
...fast political carpentry-and, except for the foreign-policy plank, about as inspiring as an orange crate. Only in one field had the framers of the document agreed to a simple proposition, stated clearly, without fear or favor. "We pledge," said the plank, "a more efficient and frequent mail-delivery service...
...most striking inequities in the present law is that a paper may be sued when a story is correct in all its major details, if it is wrong on a minor fact. Thus the Daily Mail exposed a "swindling share-pusher" who had been selling phony stocks all over Europe, and added that he had become a Canadian citizen by improper means. The swindler sued the paper and won $200. The Mail proved to the court's satisfaction that he was a swindler, but was wrong about his citizenship...
Toronto stock pushers who have been operating by mail and telephone to take U.S. suckers for an estimated $50 million a year in phony gold and oil stocks neared the end of their rope last week. The Canadian Senate ratified a change in its extradition treaty with the U.S., making such fraud an extraditable offense. No longer protected by the border, blue-sky stock peddlers can now be arrested in either country and tried where the buyer was actually bilked...