Word: tli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all other exporters TLI has run into trouble with almost predictable regularity in trying to get weekly world-wide distribution of TIME on issue date. Now, after 18 months of trying, TLI has got it, or close to it, in most countries throughout the world. There are exceptions, of course, due to acts of God, man and nature. Subscribers in remote Alaskan villages still have to be served by dog sled, and a subscriber in Andorra, high in the Pyrenees, has told us that during heavy snows his copy arrives by bearer...
...where Baker spent three months and traveled 15,000 miles by air, dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band...
Incidents like this, combined with the economic uncertainty that India's impending partition has produced, made it almost impossible to do business there. Nevertheless, Baker eventually managed to straighten out TLI's Indian affairs. In the future, readers in Indonesia and India, like TIME's growing audience of readers elsewhere overseas, will be receiving their copies of TIME within a few days of our distribution date...
Babies' diapers are Buckner's principal headache. Hard to get abroad (Parisian infants have to be shored up with newspapers), they are hard to get in the U.S. too-as many of you undoubtedly know. Buckner is accustomed to receiving frantic notes from expectant TLI mothers announcing wistfully: "I will expect the diapers when I see them!" He is generally able to assure them that the diapers will be there ahead of the baby...
...supply in most countries, too, and Buekner dispatches 200 food packages to the overseas bureaus each month. The one worry he does not have is fretting his purchases through customs at the other end. Russian customs officials, for instance, once levied 3,600 roubles ($300) on some stationery that TLI's Moscow bureau chief had ordered. It took endless dickering to get the stationery released at a sensible...