Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...send any of your phony propaganda to our union because it will go the same way as all of it has gone before: filed and flushed...
...matter drifted until a subsequent luncheon when Ickes brought it up again. "I said, 'Mr. President, I have an idea. Why don't you send for Woodring and say to him, "Harry, ordinarily Dublin is not an important diplomatic post, but now it is, on account of the war. There will be a vacancy there and I wish to fill it with one of my very strongest men. I want to appoint you." ' The President did not seem to think Woodring would agree to this...
...week's end, Dorothy was a trifle piqued over one incident. A woman called and told her that she, too, was a divorcee with two children and would Dorothy please send her any men she didn't want. "I told her," said Dorothy coldly, "to get her own man. I'm not running a matrimonial bureau...
...Perth convent, a priest brought Composer-Pianist Percy Grainger to hear her play. Grainger, in turn, fetched the great German Pianist Wilhelm Back-haus, who was touring Australia. When Backhaus said that she must go to Leipzig to study, the miners passed the hat to send her. Now Eileen is looking around for another talented Australian girl who needs help. Says she: "This is a man's world, and a girl needs every break...
Money Saver. After Booth has installed PhotoMetric at all his Bennett stores, he will lease the equipment to other retailers (at $75 to $100 a month, plus royalties) and to manufacturers at cost. The retailer will merely have to take the picture and send it to the manufacturer to make the suit. Booth estimates that any retailer with a gross of $50,000 a year can profitably adopt PhotoMetric. The greatest savings will be in alteration costs, inventory, space, insurance, etc. In fact, Booth thinks that anyone can set up in business with a swatch of cloth and a camera...