Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike, called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen against eight major railroads, immediately stranded 32,000 commuters in Chicago, another 12,000 in Boston. Mail service was disrupted and transport problems forced manufacturers to cut back production. More than 200,000 workers found themselves on short schedules or off the job altogether...
...week's end, some 17 million people had been enrolled-including 500,000 who had at first turned down the initial mail solicitation. About 1,000,000 still declined and another 1,000,000 are uncommitted. Meanwhile, the President has turned to pushing yet another section of the Medicare Act: a federal-state program to give medical assistance to the poor, with emphasis on children, that requires states rather than individuals to sign up. "The world's wealthiest nation," said Johnson in formally beginning the campaign, "must also be the world's healthiest...
...Ginzberg case is the most significant, for it demonstrates clearly the contortions the Justices are undergoing as they try to determine how much protection the public needs from men who write dirty books. Ginzberg had been indicted in 1962 for distributing through the mail a slick-paper, hard-cover glorification of sex called Eros. He was sentenced to five years in jail and fined...
Some companies are considering waiving mandatory retirement for workers with good records; others seek to attract moonlighters by offering wages 10% to 12% above normal for night shifts. The Atlanta post office has been hiring women to load trucks and trundle small mail carts around the downtown district; in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse has moved women into machine-shop and stockroom jobs normally held by men. Many companies profess that a return to the days of Rosie the Riveter is not far away...
Another drug experimenter entangled with the law was Dr. Stevan Durovic, 61, father of Krebiozen. Last month Durovic was declared innocent of charges ranging from mail fraud to submitting false statements to the Government about his so-called anticancer drug. But last week a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted him on charges of evading $904,907 in taxes on an income of $1,076,939 during 1960-62. Durovic, said his lawyer, was in Paris having his kidney treated...