Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed "bread tax," a phrase that became a household word overnight. The pamphlets, distributed free at supermarkets around the U.S., explained that if the wheat plan were passed, housewives would soon be paying more for bread as well as for flour, crackers, cookies and cereal. Before long, outraged mail against the wheat plan started deluging Capitol Hill...
...good for Congressmen trying to figure out how to answer mail from their constituents." More experienced hands complained that they had learned nothing new, while many Republicans, leary of any attempt to stifle criticism of the Administration's handling of the war, dubbed the briefings Operation Smother. In a Senate speech last week, Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voiced another reason for concern over the expanding conflict: that the U.S. will be caught in an economic squeeze between the mounting costs of the war and the Administration's ever more ambitious domestic...
...doubt considerable, however. The pressure from the air has prevented the Viet Cong from massing as effectively as they otherwise might, and has made regular sleep difficult for many a V.C. trooper. "It is terrible and miserable," wrote one Red soldier killed at Due Co before he could mail his latest letter. "Airplanes bomb and strafe, and we can do nothing about it. The fighting situation is tough, too serious and difficult. Sometimes we can muster only one platoon for military operations. I am sick almost every day with stomach pains. Drugs are low. Our rice turns sour. We would...
Candace Mossier is a lissome, lippy blonde of 46 who says that she took her children out for a drive in Key Biscayne, Fla., one night last June to mail some letters at the odd hour of 1 a.m. Instead of returning home, she says, she suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital. During her absence, something even odder happened to her millionaire husband, Miami and Houston Financier Jacques Mossier, 69. He was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 times. The results were fatal. According to Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill...
Cats & Dogs. The business of selling flowers in the U.S. now amounts to more than $800 million a year. Men still order more flowers than women, send so many on birthdays and anniversaries that many florists now keep card files, mail out reminders each year. The hardy rose remains the perennial bestseller; more than $30 million worth are sold each year. Flowers arranged and put in vases at the shop are growing rapidly in popularity-partly because overworked nurses no longer have time to arrange the floods of flowers that hospital patients receive each day. Though small arrangements sell best...