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Word: mailings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical catalogue buyer in 1964 is an urban dweller, shops by telephone rather than by mail or drops in at special catalogue stores that deliver merchandise quickly from a central warehouse. The customer profits by lower prices and a wider selection than most stores can offer, and companies are attracted to catalogue selling by the saving in inventory, rent and labor costs. A company expects to glean an average of $35 in sales from each big book, which costs $2 to produce and may contain as many as 140,000 items-from a Mexican burro to the 1928 Model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Silent Salesmen | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...position did not allow him to discuss politics. But he refused to call off the campaign. His eager New Hampshire workers were busily buying television time for a five-minute Lodge campaign film that was made in 1960-and narrated by Dwight Eisenhower. Besides that, Lodge people planned to mail out 94,000 sample ballots this week, showing voters how to write in Lodge's name and how to vote for his delegates. With heady optimism, they predicted he would get 27,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Down to the Tallest Tree | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Daughter of a railway mail clerk, Sandy was born in Hastings, Neb., and raised in Kenesaw and Lincoln. After a short flirtation with college life, she left for New York, where she took a cold-water flat in the Village and enrolled in Herbert Berghofs acting school. Here is where the hat-check part usually comes in, and the feet graped with blisters, but not for Sandy. She had been in Manhattan only a few months when an off-Broadway producer stopped her on the street, asked if she was an actress, then said he wanted her to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Two in the Center | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...cursed, slapped, knocked to the floor and kicked by the officer who booked him because he answered a question with the words "That's right, air." The incident was witnessed by over 20 police officers and fellow prisoners. While in jail he was not allowed to receive mail or visitors, contrary to usual Jackson prison policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weaver Freed From Jackson Jail; Raps Brutal Treatment by Police | 2/24/1964 | See Source »

Governor Wallace, one of Johnson's classmates at the University of Alabama Law School, has called him rash, headstrong, vindictive, unstable, erratic, and demanded his impeachment. Even so, Johnson has come in for surprisingly little abuse. The mail brings only about a dozen nasty letters a week (he never replies). None of the old friends he values have cut him. Two boys once burned a cross on the front lawn of his house, but to the judge that was only a boyish prank rather than an attempt to intimidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: A Lincoln Man | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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