Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within hours after that, everything about the trial but Judy's purse-which seemed to have grown to the size of a mail pouch-had been forgotten. Even Archie was drowned out in the uproar which ensued...
...much mail is pouring in from eager baldheads abroad that van Rooijen's wife has started a stamp collection. The barber already has seven girls helping him in the shop at Een. Later this month he plans to branch out; his son will open a ten-chair shop in Amsterdam...
Perhaps because the co-authors collaborated by mail (Frank Jr. lives in Charleston, S.C., sister Ernestine in Manhasset, N.Y.), their product lacks unity and presents the reader with only the haziest notion about the chronology of the Gilbreth tribe's doings. Though father Gilbreth often sounds (and sounds off) like father Day, Cheaper by the Dozen lacks the literary merits of its wise, well-honed predecessor. Mother Gilbreth's firm character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities...
...Airman Rickenbacker made the businesslike kind of sense they wanted to hear. Next day, he followed up his free advice with a dramatic and not entirely disinterested proposal. He offered to take over his competitors-National, Delta, Capital, Chicago & Southern, and Colonial Airlines -and handle all their domestic air mail at Eastern's "non-subsidy" rate of 60/ to 65^ per ton mile (v. the five lines' average which he figured at $4.45 last year). *The difference, said Rick, would save the taxpayers $10 million a year...
...Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director of vocational rehabilitation at the State Penitentiary...