Word: postcarder
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Coulter borrowed $250,000 for new equipment, hustled business from such big shippers as Quaker Oats, U.S. Gypsum and Armour, reopened 20 freight offices across the country, and started informing shippers by postcard on every movement of their freight. He raised wages to standard rates, set up a management-labor suggestion committee, spruced up cabooses with new coats of paint, good toilet facilities, even outlets for electric razors...
Anyone wishing to see the rest of the beautiful Alpine background not shown in the portion of the postcard reproduced here can see it at the CRIMSON News Room, 14 Plymption Street...
This tenuous little spoof-on-a-bicycle is no weightier than a postcard, and its contents are no more momentous. But in the sprightly pantomiming of Actor Tati (who also directed and co-authored the screenplay), the picture occasionally seems to be arriving by special delivery...
...operation for cataracts was successful, but the 70-year-old man in the charity ward at Manhattan's New York Eye & Ear Infirmary still could not see without expensive glasses. Then a hospital worker sat down and wrote a postcard. Last week a pair of thick new glasses arrived and for the first time in twelve years he was able to read. A Christmas card with the glasses bore the name: "New Eyes for the Needy-Short Hills...
Teacher Ilda Rossi considered Fabio's problem. Why, she asked, didn't he write a letter to a newspaper? Maybe some kind reader would send him a postcard. Fabio leaped on the idea. Two weeks later, his plea for postcards appeared in Milan's weekly Domenica del Corrieri. The response was immediate. Bundles of postcards began arriving from all over Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Others followed from Africa, Japan, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro and even Union City, N.J. Some days brought more than 1,000 cards. Some people sent money, chocolates; one offered...