Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marie Antoinette, the death of Washington are events frozen on fragile, age-yellowed pages in Tidende's library, where bound copies of the paper date back to 1749. That was the year that Ernst Henrich Berling, a Copenhagen printer, secured a license to send news through the royal mail. The license has long since expired, along with Frederik V, the monarch who granted it. Frederik IX now sits on the throne. Ernst Berling, too, died long ago. But six successive generations of Berlings have preserved Tidende's title as the oldest newspaper in the world...
...would go faster, he set up a new secretariat under his Secretary of State, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, to carry on council deliberations until the council fathers reconvene on Sept. 8. To each bishop he arranged to send all proposals during the recess, in a sort of continuing council by mail order. As for the disagreements that the council had produced, John dismissed them by saying, "We are not friars singing in a choir...
...Full Spectrum. By operating as mail-order centers, Singer stores hope to increase their volume sharply without much additional cost. If the idea works, Singer President Donald Kircher, 47, intends to install catalogue counters in 1,400 stores in smaller communities across the U.S. and Canada. (Singer expects that its 200 stores in big cities will stay out of the mail-order business...
...speech also opened what may prove to be the Great Debate of 1963: the inescapable battle over the size, shape and timing of tax cuts. Some members of Congress have already reacted to the prospect of such cuts with the wariness of a man who receives through the mail an unexpected package that emits a ticking sound. And among the wariest are the two congressional veterans who wield the most power over tax legislation: Virginia's Harry Byrd. 75, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, 53. chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...
...last, the Post Office--too clever by half--seems to be on the verge of hoisting itself on its own little game of petard. True, no greater number of firstclass letters will flow through the mails (the rates increase to five cents as of the first of January), but at least no one need ever receive another piece of junk mail. Nemesis in this instance is a curious little figure named Mr.Zip. Mr.Zip is five little numbers that secretaries of giant from firms are supposed to be able to put on hundreds of useless envelopes to speed them on their...