Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Times change. Things are different today. Looking through The Saturday Evening Post of Oct. 5 I find the following ads- Boston Garter, Daisy Air Rifle, Chiclets, Holeproof Hosiery, Lea & Perrins, Florsheim Shoes, Van Camp's Pork & Beans, Packard cars, Gold Medal Flour etc., etc. The first 31 words of the first editorial entitled "The Howl and the Howlers," are "Glancing casually over a day's news we learn that investors, not knowing what Roosevelt will do next, fear 'that the little of value that is left to them will soon vanish...
...places, but, Mr. TIME, you don't know Jersey City. I suggest that in making your announcement in subsequent issues of TIME, you state it thusly: "Now you can read TIME on the same day of the week you have always read it-which depends on your local Post-master...
...getting the news to its readers one day sooner. It necessarily takes time to print 700,000 and more copies of a magazine. By still going to press the same day it always has but speeding up its printing schedule, TIME now gets to its readers (local post-masters permitting) on Thursdays instead of Fridays...
...they number 65,000 (TIME'S figure) and control the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., the American League for Peace and Democracy, the unemployed, the PWA, Farley's Post Office, half of the colleges, the Protestant churches, the Federal Theatre and Art Project, the Farmer-Labor Party, Hollywood, the Newspaper Guild, the State Department, I suggest they be used to sell air-conditioning and thus remake this country as did mass production of the automobile...
...Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands last year set a precedent by personally preannouncing the birth of her daughter over the radio (TIME, June 28, 1937). Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...