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Today is an important day in Forecast annals. Up to this point there has been nothing really worthy of my talents. Picking winners has been as easy as prognosticating the presidential election. Send a stamped, addressed envelope, by the way, and I'll give you the inside dope on any...
In the monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public-he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other...
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...
Cleveland readers were amazed. Whispers of the stamped envelope scandal were broadcast. The Plain Dealer's story was guarded, vague. What were the facts? Envelopemen assembled them, thus:
In 1907, the Mercantile Corp. won the non and lucrative U. S. stamped envelope contract, making a tidy profit for Stockholder Myron Charles Taylor, now a potent U. S. Steel executive.* Not until 1917 was the contract wrested away from the Mercantile Corp. In that year, the Middle West Supply...