Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot go on like this," warned the Tory Daily Mail. "Ordinary men and women . . . are accusing the government of doing nothing," said the Tory Daily Sketch. Last week the government of Prime Minister Anthony Eden got even more pointed reminders of Britain's increasing dissatisfaction. In three by-elections for "safe" Conservative seats, the Tory percentage of the vote dropped by a surprising...
...break, but have helped to spoon up a profitable new business: coffee catering, to bring the coffee in to employees. Says a Kaiser Aluminum executive in Oakland, Calif.: "Our department alone is saving $110 a month on coffeetime. I drink the coffee at my desk while I open the mail, save half an hour-and enjoy it more...
Summerfield's specific proposals for new rates-first-class mail to 4? an ounce, air mail to 7?, and a 30% increase in second-and third-class mail- were open to argument on detail. But there could be no doubt that some increase was necessary in all three classes of mail. Congress-which last year denied a similar Summerfield request-was faced with a clear choice: higher postal rates or indefinite continuance of the built-in Post Office deficit...
After wayward young (20) Mail-Order Heir Montgomery Ward Thorne mysteriously died in a shabby Chicago apartment (TIME, July 26, 1954) amid the sordid evidence of a sex-and-drug orgy, his will, drawn up only nine days before his death, soon sparked a bitter court battle. It left only a quarter of his $1,800,000 estate to his mother and an aunt, three-quarters to his pretty fiancee, Maureen Ragen, and her mother. Last week a Chicago court threw out the will on the ground that fear-ridden Thorne was not legally competent when he made...
Secret of Success. "The secret of my success," Founder Philip Rosenthal boasted, "is a combination of American merchandising ideas and German craftsmanship." The son of a Westphalian china merchant, Rosenthal ran away to the U.S. at 17, punched cows in Texas, rode horseback mail routes in Colorado, wound up heading the glass and china department of a Detroit department store. In 1879, when he was 24, Rosenthal returned to Germany to buy china. Instead, he bought a castle near Selb, in the heart of North Bavaria's famed porcelain country, and started turning out decorated chinaware. By 1934, when...