Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kefauver's hand as he boarded the Chicago-bound Capital Airlines plane was his enormous, ever-present briefcase, stuffed with all the items that long campaign experience has taught him he needs: an extra shirt (he perspires heavily), his slippers, silver-blue eyeshade, mail, vitamins, Alka-Seltzer, cigars (he chews them still unwrapped), cigarettes and a holder (to keep fit for campaigning he tried to quit smoking, failed, settled for filtertipped cigarettes puffed through a filtered holder), three or four pairs of reading and sunglasses, shaving equipment-and a fat, black contact book with all the important political names...
...dawn darkness one day last week, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway mail train pulled off the main line and onto a siding about five miles south of the little cattle town of Springer, N. Mex., to let the Santa Fe's Los Angeles-bound streamliner, the Chief, roar past. As the mail train slid to a stop, Fireman Pete Camilo Caldarelli, 44, climbed down out of the locomotive and walked through the chill desert air to a switch up ahead. The job he had to do was one he had done many times in the past: stand...
...Chief's lights came sweeping out of the darkness, the mail train whistled on the siding, and Caldarelli suddenly raced across the track, opened two locks and threw the switch. The streamliner, instead of rushing past at 40 to 45 m.p.h. on the main line, roared into the open switch, onto the siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory...
...lieutenant commander and took his first newspaper job pedaling a bicycle on rural news beats for England's weekly Leighton Buzzard Beds and Bucks Observer. He had worked his way up to Fleet Street by 1948, when he moved to Canada. The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman. Then he joined the Star. In 1949 his first self-invented foreign assignment took him to Yugoslavia to check up on 3,000 Yugoslav immigrants who had left Canada for Tito's Marxist paradise and wanted to get out again. Stevenson's stories...
Inflation, or the threat of it, is at least partly responsible. Louis Ogens, a 46-year-old Chicago mail clerk who, with his wife, Frances, is paying off $152.90 in installment loans plus $97.50 in rent a month on total monthly take-home pay of $658, says he learned his lesson as a G.I. in inflation-crippled China. Ogens' slogan: "Get in debt on the high dollar, pay off in the low dollar." Says he: "Then there's the $200-or 300-a-year income-tax deduction you can take for interest payments...