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Word: mailings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later the city will mail a summons to Hair's producers for an offense that was not even on the books in 1968: noise pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...wreck could replace Spanish galleons as a new trove for treasure hunters: on the flight were some "extremely valuable" pieces of jewelry and mail. At present the area is under guard while authorized divers try to retrieve the booty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wet Landing | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...policy of freezing promotions of top managers after age 50 and decruiting them at 60. Already more than 40 store managers have moved down and taken pay cuts of one-third to one-half: Tage Nielsen, 56, now works as an office clerk; Edmond Glud, 64, switched to the mail department; Sigvald Bangsager, 62, cuts a fine figure as a security guard. Says he: "You have to know when your time is up, when you're burned out." Adds Poul Jensen, a former director who now works in marketing liaison: "Why shouldn't a manager work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Down Than Out | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up." Says the Guinness Book of World Records: "The greatest recorded train robbery occurred between 3:03 a.m. and 3:27 a.m. on August 8, 1963, when a General Post Office mail train from Glasgow, Scotland, was ambushed at Sears Crossing and robbed at Bridego Bridge at Mentmore, near Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, England. The gang escaped with about 120 mailbags containing ?2,631,784 worth of bank notes being taken to London for pulping. Only ? 343,448 had been recovered by December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Over-the-Hill Mob | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...fact that a lot of lobbying was going on. Except for a few full-page newspaper ads by Jewish organizations, however, much of that activity was characteristically invisible, the spontaneous reaction of many of the 5.8 million Jews in the U.S. "There has been a tremendous outpouring of mail," says one congressional staffer. "But no one has to tell concerned Jews to write to their Congressman. When they see an issue that is dangerous to Israel, they respond." Similarly, he notes, "you don't have to call up a Senator to tell him the Jews don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: PlaneTalk on Capitol Hill | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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