Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impasse left the U.S. with only one major transcontinental airline, American,* still in operation and a flock of regional carriers to cope with the air traffic (60% of all U.S. passengers, 73% of all cargo, 70% of all mail) usually carried by the grounded five...
...support, it was clear that he still had excellent rapport with the President. Yet even the trip to Washington exposed the Prime Minister to fresh criticism at home. "The nation is becoming accustomed to waving farewell to Mr. Wilson just as things get uncomfortable," declared London's Daily Mail, recalling that Wilson took off on a trip to Moscow three weeks ago as the latest sterling crisis approached. The Prime Minister, added the Daily Sketch, "is in danger of becoming an absentee landlord...
...Thrill of Showing Off. The tastes of the audience, which ballots by mail for the winners (average weekly mail: 9,000 cards), are shifting. Going out of popularity are one-man bands, soft-shoe dancers, Dixieland, harmonicas and stringed instruments; coming in strong are folk singers, guitars, guitars and guitars. The Hour still has its share of artists who play rhythms with fire extinguishers, punching bags, bones, bicycle pumps, balloons, spoons, glasses and bottles-naturally, Geritol bottles...
Almost half of the guns used in murders in 1963 and 1964 were bought-with shocking ease-through the mail. Forty-two states do not require persons to get licenses to buy hand guns, and in those states and areas with licensing laws, almost anyone who has the price of a pistol can get one. In Washington, D.C., police checked 200 persons who had received mail-order guns, found 25% of them had criminal records. In New Jersey, the Paterson Morning Call last November marked the second anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by ordering a .38-cal. revolver...
Though the Federal Firearms Act prohibits the mailing of hand guns, except to military officers, policemen, Government watchmen and other authorized persons, mail-order dealers commonly get around this barrier by shipping pistols and revolvers by common carriers and commercial delivery services. No federal law requires the shippers to question the qualifications of the buyer or notify police. Some dealers also offer a variety of heavy, war-surplus antitank guns and bazookas. One youngster with a mail-order bazooka shot several thousand dollars' worth of transformers off utility posts before he was arrested. Four California youths, using...