Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still below the $30 billion reduction demanded by AFL-CIO President George Meany, who complained last week that the Government grossly underestimates the severity of the recession (see following story). If all goes smoothly, the Democrats expect the Internal Revenue Service to get most of the rebates in the mail in May and all of them out by mid-June. The new withholding rates should take effect at midyear, thus sparking spending power in the second half...
...long lines in dreary surroundings and be subjected to snappish treatment by overworked clerks. Worse, because of the heavy work load in the offices, the checks on which the jobless depend are either not ready when they appear at the office or are late in arriving in the mail. In Georgia, for instance, benefit applications early this month were running at 96,000 a week, v. 19,000 last year, and checks for some people were still arriving a month to six weeks late...
Around Philadelphia, Parent enjoys the perquisites that go with being a superstar. Industrial Valley Bank pays him generously to advertise: "Bernie Saves . . . at I.V.B.," and a popular local bumper sticker declares: ONLY THE LORD SAVES MORE THAN BERNIE PARENT. Bernie receives so much fan mail he has been forced to hire a secretary. Despite all the attention, he prefers quiet evenings at home with the family. "I've been trying to get Bernie to take me to a country and western show for years," says Carol. "He hates to get dressed up to go out any place...
...reader of history imagines himself to be at the very fulcrum of great events and thus at a gratifying distance from the morning mail or the evening news. There is no better way of keeping reality at bay, unless-and this is the admirable theory behind If It Had Happened Otherwise-the fulcrum of the great event is fancifully shifted a few centimeters, or removed entirely...
Spokane, Wash., callers with clogged drains are met with a message from Reginald the plumber: "If you have a plumbing problem, please write down the nature of your problem and mail it to me. If this is an emergency, write 'Rush' on the letter. All letters will be judged on the basis of neatness and originality." Manhattan Psychiatrist Edward Hornick's electronic surrogate greets the caller with "Shrink, Inc." Some of the more innovative answering-machine users are massage parlors and "rap" studios. In its recorded message the Blue Orchid Studio of Kansas City, Mo., gets right...