Word: tli
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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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...
...needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout the world, and TLI had to set up a global shopping service to provide them...
...date, Personal Shopping (which operates solely for the benefit of TLI bureaumen) has been a constantly expanding service, and Buckner, who has to purchase many of the "rush" items himself, is now quite at home in the unmentionables departments of Manhattan's stores. He has had orders for almost everything, from washable dolls with eyes that open & close to automobile jack assemblies and girdles. The one constant in his business, however, is the three most requested items from all of TLI's bureaus throughout the world: cigarets, coffee, vitamin pills...
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...