Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Theodore Baker, 62, founder in 1934 and president until his retirement in 1961 of National Airlines, an autocratic Chicagoan who flew his first plane at 16, bulled National from a small mail carrier to the nation's eighth largest line (2,311,000 passengers last year), strong enough to joust with giant Eastern Air Lines on the rich New York-Miami route, where he drummed up trade with the first cut-rate day-coach fares, packaged vacations and scored an impressive coup in 1958 by leasing Boeing 707s from Pan American, thus making National first...
...University is unsure what aspects of the scheme are actually illegal. It is illegal to send chain letters through the mail, but the postal regulations apparently do not cover the saving bonds. The letter itself warns, "Send only the bonds themselves through the mail. Do not mail the list of names...
...Distressing as it may be to A.T. & T. the sale of offbeat handsets is booming. Two companies in New York City account for most of a fast-moving retail and mail order business in rebuilt foreign antiques and reproductions, equipped with dials and plug-ins to fit a phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge...
...hand that feeds him," the London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill sued...
Having been set adrift by the News of the World, Churchill will probably land on another London paper. It is not likely to be the Daily Mail, though, or the Daily Telegraph or the Evening Standard. Randolph has already been there...