Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...began for Britain's press one day in 1896 when two Harmsworth brothers, sons of an indigent London barrister, started the Daily Mail. First of Britain's great papers for the masses, it made the Harmsworths first of a fabulous line of British press lords. That era definitely ended last week when the younger of the Harmsworth brothers, aged 72, died of dropsy in Bermuda...
...Alfred persuade him to join Answers as business manager. Alfred had the editorial brains, Harold knew shillings & pence. In six years, from their profits, they were able to buy a struggling London daily, the Evening News, and put it on its feet. Then they founded the Daily Mail. In 1917 Alfred was created Viscount Northcliffe, two years later Harold became Viscount Rothermere...
Most remarkable episode in Rothermere's gold-encrusted career was his crusade for a greater Hungary. The Daily Mail took up Hungary's cause in 1927, for five years harped on the "wanton" dismemberment of Hungary at Versailles. Astonished Hungarians went wild with enthusiasm, showered gifts on Rothermere, named a street after him in Budapest. A Hungarian newspaper, Pesti Hirlap, supposedly backed by some members of the Government, offered Rothermere the crown of Hungary. When he refused, it was offered to his son Esmond...
...British listeners amused. This week, for the first time in its history, it will introduce a cash-prize contest, on which it will offer ?100 each month to the listeners who make high scores in identifying such sounds as those made in games of cricket, croquet, golf. Listeners will mail guesses with twopence-halfpenny stamps, and BBC expects to collect ?2,500 a month for the Red Cross Penny a Week Fund...
...advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute lesson. The Martins get requests for their dance routines from as far away as Australia, mail their monthly magazine, the Detroit Roller Skater, to 14 countries on four continents...