Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely," said Julius Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced," and to avoid that humiliation, he began investing a personal estate of $400 million in the public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with...
...customers were flying in from Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Scandinavia, and even Portugal and Poland. One U.S. boutique owner crossed the Atlantic to buy mod dresses on sale for $3.60, figuring that their London labels would enable her to charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies which make the pound look like a sick piaster...
...three concerns-American President Lines and Pacific Far East Lines, both based in San Francisco, and Seattle's American Mail Lines-would form a combine with an estimated $156 million in annual revenues, $261 million assets and 51 ships (plus eleven more on order) plying mostly the transpacific and Far East trade routes. The new firm, probably to be named American Steamship Lines, would automatically take its place among the world's top steamship companies...
...interpret the term," he suggests. "The black communities are separate communities, and we might as well recognize the fact, and we might as well hope that they would become complete communities as say, Cambridge is." Curle would favor blacks taking over essential community services such as garbage collection or mail delivery--things which whites now do but do poorly. The ultimate goal would be to foster a pride and independence which would permit blacks to negotiate with whites as equals. Though generally pessimistic about the prospects for integration, Curle sees such a greater sense of black identity and confidence...
...propose an additional cut with which I am sure millions of Americans will agree? If the mail service is as poor in other parts of the United States as it is in Albuquerque, I propose cutting the entire budget of the Postal Department and returning to the Pony Express...