Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the Federal Trade Commission: since his denims did not have any red fox fur in them, he could no longer use the name. Think of the joy Carter's sensible proclamation would have brought to the parsimonious New Hampshirite who had to spend $26.23 in postage to mail the bulky forms for a license renewal for his small radio station. Pity the distress the Carter doctrine will cause the Occupational Safety and Health Administration bureaucrat who propounded the 39-word, single-sentence definition of EXIT: "That portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other...
Thank you very much Susie foring with us that superb prose. If any one else wants to write letters to this column, please do so. The last piece of mail I got informed me that there was a sale on baby clothes at a local store...
...gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot be furnished with a new seat-type silk parachute and that no criticism be made if the parachutes were used...
...letters, MacCracken revealed to Lindy that after his fourth jump in 1927, "I was thinking of grounding you so you wouldn't be taking so many chances." He did not do so only because Bill Robertson, one of the owners of the mail service for which Lindbergh was flying, "came into my office in the Department of Commerce while I had on my desk the report [on that last bailout]. Bill persuaded me not to do it because he said they were still trying to get the last $2,000 or $3,000 to build the plane...
Need some new falconry equipment? An indoor treadmill to exercise your dog? An explorer's chain-mail suit guaranteed to deflect poisonous arrows? For 85 years, the place to go would have been Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch, supplier to princes and Presidents, and the self-styled "greatest sporting-goods store in the world." Alas, no longer: last week the company saddled with debts totaling nearly $8 million, gave up a 15-month struggle to reorganize under the bankruptcy laws and went into liquidation...