Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of his days are now, the President's birthday, May 8, was quiet and routine. It started in the enlarged and refurnished glass solarium atop the White House, where the President had a leisurely breakfast with Mrs. Truman and Margaret, opened presents and some birthday mail and telegrams. Then, after his morning staff conference, he strolled in the White House garden with Bess and Margaret, posed for a birthday picture with them, flashing one of his biggest smiles for photographers...
northcliffe, whose own screaming, halfpenny Daily Mail was flourishing, saw no reason why a paper as old and influential as the Times should have only 40,000 circulation and be almost bankrupt. How he shook things up occupies the bulk of the latest and final volume of the fascinating Times-sponsored History of the Times, on which scholarly Stanley Morison, 63, has spent the last 20 years. As in the previous volumes (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), Timesman Morison trots out all "the Thunderer's" skeletons, glories and stupidities with an unsparing candor seldom equaled by official chronicles anywhere...
...began. The dolphin-bodied de Havilland jet liner Comet got the take-off signal, swept down the runway at London Airport, its four turbines whistling a high pitch, and climbed seven miles into the air carrying a full load of 36 passengers, six crewmen and 30 bags of mail. The next day, as thousands watched at Johannesburg's Palmietfontein Airport, the silver and blue BOAC jet streaked down, ending its 6,724-mile trip. Total elapsed time: 23 hours, 38 minutes. This was 8¾ hours faster than BOAC's usual nights take. Yet by refueling at friendly...
...managed to build up remarkable resistance to relatively mild cold shoulders. Also in their favor is the fact that they bring draft board notices, bills, checks, and the like. When the mailman shoves his foot in a University door, he is well aware of the importance of the U.S. Mail to the student he solicits...
Most mailmen do not rest their pleas merely on the sinister threat of "no sale, no mail." They usually remark that "everyone else in the entry bought a ticket and don't you realize that your small deflated dollar is going to help old retired mailmen who need it much more than you do, I'm sure." If one stands still and says nothing, the mailman will also stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back...