Word: mailings
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When steam forced Webb to close his yards, he became an investor. In 1889, with big profits from the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and the Panama Railroad, he created Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders-the first and still the only college in the U.S. devoted solely to naval architecture and marine engineering (though comparable courses are offered by M.I.T. and the University of Michigan). Webb's bequest of $2,500,000, now grown to $8,000,000, pays 70% of the school's operating expenses. Alumni and industry make up the rest, helping...
...members. These annual reports are to be open to the public. Members of a registered group cannot hold government jobs or work in defense installations and are liable to prosecution under the Smith Act. Still other restrictions are placed on the functioning of a registered group; for example, mail sent by such a group must be labeled, "Disseminated by--, a Communist organization," and in the case of a labor union, the group loses its NLRB bargaining rights...
...thousand dollars worth of waste effort. The prospect was warmly welcomed by Charles Staab, 60, the Enquirer's executive vice president and business manager, and something of a fat trimmer himself: eight years of Staab-inspired wow (for "Wipe Out Waste") campaigns have, among other-things, reduced the mail-room staff by introducing automation...
...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...
...many Houses, one's morning mail is delivered in the afternoon...