Word: stampede
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Washington, Post Office officials opened for the second time bids to supply the U. S. with 12,800,000,000 stamped envelopes, its quota for the next four years (TIME, Aug. 20, Sept. 17). Once before bids had been opened and rejected. This time figures were much...
In a still more hypnotic state, Ma'm'selle moved dazedly to the cashier's window, cashed the chip for its stamped value of 100,000 francs ($4,000), and tottered out under Deauville's big moon.
To the Post Office Department at Washington came bids for supplying the U. S. with 12,800;000,000 stamped envelopes, enough to last four years. (TIME, Aug. 20.) Lowest of three estimates was the figure of International Envelope Co., an International Paper subsidiary. Post Office officials noted this bid...
Experience has taught the U. S. Post Office Dept. that the public uses about 3,200,000,000 stamped envelopes each year. Accordingly, finding its supply low, it advertised last month for bids to supply envelopes over a period of four years, in the amount of 12,800,000,000...
Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young...