Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Ever. The annual efflorescence of four-color printing is aimed at every kind of green thumbsman from penthouse to prairie. It reaches its peak this month, when the industry offers glowing premiums-rosebushes, flowering shrubs, a pruning knife-to those who mail in their seed orders before March 15. Each year also brings a crop of first-time-ever items. Among this year's new offerings...
When Is a Bad Seed? A few unscrupulous companies still advertise such dubious items as rosebushes at 250 apiece, or cut-rate, "guaranteed hardy" hedge plants that do not survive the U.S. mail. Other traps for the unwary in newspaper ads are fancy names such as "Tree of Heaven" for Ailanthus altissima, otherwise known as stinkweed, or the ever-popular "Christmas Rose," which is not a rose (it belongs to the buttercup family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees...
When the "mistake" was discovered, the student phoned his mother, told her to mail the bluebook to the grader posthaste and sat back to wait his excellent grade...
CHARLIE: Yeah. It feels great to work up a good healthy sweat once in a while. Bet my legs'll be sore tonight. Say, have you gotten any mail from the reunion committee? Seems like it's about time we were hearing from them...
...effect was a little like a run on a country bank. The Canadians fear a coin shortage of their own, and the Ottawa mint is Canada's only coin-making facility. As the mail piled up, Finance Minister Walter L. Gordon issued a hurried public statement declaring the sales of 1965 sets halted. The first day's orders alone were enough for the whole year. Mint Master Norval A. Parker turned one of the mint's cafeterias into a workroom, hired 20 extra workers to return the letters to their senders...