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Word: mailings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outraged Butchers' Guild of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany last week rallied under the slogan, "What's all this about the Neckermann pig?" Josef Neckermann, 54, the country's mail-order wizard, once again upset retailers, this time by offering through the mail half a pig for deepfreezing at half the price the pork would normally cost in the neighborhood butcher shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: The Success of Neckermann's Pig | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Since our subscribers are up to so many things, we are happy that they always have time for TIME. year the U.S. Post Office - handles 76 billion pieces of mail. It is a staggering figure, but perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that Time Inc., spending $25 million a year, accounts for one billion of them. We have worked closely with the Post Office to try and find new and faster ways of processing mail ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...endeavor by the Post Office to persuade people to convert to the ZIP code. Time Inc. began using the code in 1963 when the system began, and this week has a series of speakers at work promoting the system around the country. Last year less than 30% of the mail was ZIP coded, this year nearly 50%. Next year the Government hopes for 80%. For TIMEsubscribers the easy way to check for their own ZIP code is to look at the address label on this issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Today, although well-oiled lobbying may be more effective and mass demonstrations more dramatic, the U.S. is witnessing a marked resurgence of petitions. With Chartist fervor, miles of signatures are collected each year on hand-drawn circulars passed from neighbor to neighbor, in organized mail campaigns, or to adorn elaborate newspaper ads. The greatest impetus to the petition business has been Viet Nam, but other, infinitely varied causes range from civic issues, such as the restoration of trolleys on New Orleans' Canal Street, to campus concerns, such as student demands at Berkeley that the university hospital provide birth control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE PETITION GAME: Look Before Signing | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...discovered that the Hollywood version of the networks is quite correct. I called CBS executives all day long and couldn't reach a single one. The order was out to all secretaries that no one wanted to talk to me." It was small consolation to open his mail and read one brief letter: "Jack Paar won't be as good as you. I know-I'm his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Most Intimate Medium | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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