Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists) is the name of a leaky, 30-ft. steam launch that wheezes along a remote little river in German East Africa, delivering mail and supplies. When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart...
This week, as the mail continued to pile in, Du Mont and Bishop Sheen were planning to continue the series indefinitely, as one of Du Mont's "public service" shows...
...chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Robert Elkington Wood, 72, runs the biggest general store in the world. Last year Sears, Roebuck sold the astronomical number of 500,000,000 separate items-everything from a one-ounce sewing bobbin to a 2,200-lb.brooder house. But the biggest mail-order seller of all was, as usual, diapers. To Merchandiser Wood, this fact is significant. It illustrates his motto that a "business, to stay healthy, must grow with the nation...
...more than justified. Last year Sears sold $2,777,277,096 worth of goods, more than twice as much as its closest rival, Montgomery Ward. Its estimated net profit was $113 million. Sears is now the sixth biggest corporation, in dollar volume of sales, in the U.S.* Besides its mail-order business, which is run from eleven plants, Sears has 691 stores in 47 states, Hawaii and four foreign countries...
...customers who pore over the catalogue have changed as much as the ads. Now city folk account for 64% of Sears' mail-order sales, and the company runs a 24-hour telephone service in four cities to take orders...